Tremendous progress: Council committee reviews Trumbull school audit compliance
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School Superintendent Martin Semmel speaks to the town council’s Education Committee on April 26, 2021.Zoom screen captureShow MoreShow Less
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Education Committee Chairman Thomas Whitmoyer asks a question during a committee meeting with school officials on April 26.Zoom screen captureShow MoreShow Less
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TRUMBULL The school board and administration are making “tremendous progress” on meeting nearly 70 recommendations from an operational review conducted last year, according to feedback from the town council’s Education Committee.
“There’s a lot of recommendations there, and some of them aren’t so easy to implement,” said Lori Rosasco-Schwartz, R-3rd District.
Tremendous progress: Council committee reviews Trumbull school audit compliance
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Trumbull school board seeks $4.7 million budget hike
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School Superintendent Martin Semmel shows the Trumbull school board a graphic of the 2021-22 budget request broken down by category.Zoom screen captureShow MoreShow Less
TRUMBULL The financial review that showed dozens of financial irregularities in the Trumbull school system continues to dominate the Board of Education’s budget discussions, even as the board voted unanimously to submit a $113.7 million funding request to First Selectman Vicki Tesoro.
Superintendent Martin Semmel, who was not associated with the Trumbull schools during the time period that the review covered, pointed out to the board at its Feb. 9 meeting that the deficit spending seemed to begin at about the same time that the schools received unusually small budget allocations. The deficits eventually led the schools into what interim Superintendent Ralph Iassogna called a dire budget situation in January 2020.
PTSA president: Years of underfunding Trumbull schools caused financial woes
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Superintendent Martin Semmel speaks at the dedication ceremony for Mary Ellen Way, in front of Jane Ryan Elementary School, in Trumbull, Conn. Nov. 6. 2020.Ned Gerard / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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TRUMBULL While school administrators are vowing to implement changes recommended in a scathing audit, others say the financial troubles are a result of years of under-funding the district.
Superintendent Martin Semmel told the Board of Education on Tuesday that he and school business administrator Paul Hendrickson were going to “go through every one of these recommendations, starting with the priorities, and work our way down.”
80-page document of nightmares : School financial audit stuns Trumbull officials
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Members of the town’s Board of Finance and the Education Committee of the town council reviewed the document at a joint meeting conducted via Zoom Tuesday, and were stunned and frustrated by the audit’s findings.File photo
TRUMBULL For years, the town’s schools operated without proper financial oversight, according to an operational review conducted by the accounting firm PKF O’Connor Davies.
Members of the town’s Board of Finance and the Education Committee of the town council reviewed the document at a joint meeting conducted via Zoom Tuesday, and were stunned and frustrated by the audit’s findings.
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