A newly-released report shows state officials mismanaged audits for Connecticut’s school construction program in recent years and failed to enforce price caps that are meant to hold down costs for local school building projects.
The 83-page report, which was produced by the state Auditors of Public Accounts, highlights significant flaws in the state’s oversight of the Office of School Construction Grants & Review at a time when that multibillion dollar program is already under federal investigation.
It took the state 12 years the same amount of time a student can pass from first grade to college to conclude that the town of Manchester owed it nearly $5 million due to “ineligible costs” in a state-financed reconstruction of its middle school, Bennet Academy.
The good news for Manchester is that the auditors worked for the Office of School Construction Grants & Review, the same office that initially signed off on the spending. After an appeal to the office’s director, Kostantinos “Kosta” Diamantis, he agreed to waive the debt.
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It took the state 12 years the same amount of time a student can pass from first grade to college to conclude that the town of Manchester owed it nearly $5 million due to “ineligible costs” in a state-financed reconstruction of its middle school, Bennet Academy.