This post is a continuation of Getting nowhere quick! from October 2-3.
Another RTK was granted in part and denied in part today.
Another RTK was granted in part and denied in part today.
On October 4, 2017, the Mt. Lebanon School District (the “District") received your Public Records Request (“Request”), made pursuant to the Right to Know Law ("RTKL"), seeking “receipts for Pursuant Ketchum's invoice for $18,400 (up front expense) and receipts for the first four payments of $14,613.”
Please be advised that the District has completed its review of your Request and your Request is granted and denied in part.
The District has located five pages of paper records that are responsive to this Request. Under the Section 701 of the RTKL, the District is not required to create electronic records if the records do not exist in electronic format. Therefore, because these records do not exist in electronic format and because you request that responsive records be sent by email, your Request is denied. Friedman v. Upper Darby School District, AP 2017-0397, 2017 WL 1196380 (OOR March 28, 2017).
However, the District will scan and email these records upon receipt of payment in the amount of $1.25 (5 pages x $0.25 per page) made payable to the “Mt. Lebanon School District.” Alternatively, the records will be made available for copying at a cost of $0.25 per page.Long story short, I went up to the Business Office with my $1.25 only to learn that Jeanine was gone for the day. I hope she will be able to send my request to me tomorrow.
Here is my receipt for $1.25. As I told the ladies in the Business Office, (never saw Jan Klein,) I didn't want to cause a financial hardship to the District. Times must be tough on Horsman Drive if they are expecting to be paid $1.25 up front.
16 comments:
So here in 2017, the district still maintains receipts and invoices in paper format. Not very 21st century accounting is it!
Maybe Klein still uses an abacus and now we know the reason for the discrepencies in the financial reports.
They maintain paper records charging for RTKs? Well, then they should have no problem finding a paper record of the almost millioj dollars transferred to the capital campaign and a record of the prescribed legal steps to authorize it. Right?
It is pathetic that I had to ask for missing receipts from a previous RTK. They should have been included with the first RTK. WTF?
Elaine
Is Jan Klein a graduate of MT. Lebanon? If she is I can understand why she has such a difficult time with math!
What an ignorant and completely stupid thing to say, 5:29. I think you must be trolling. The academics of Mt. Lebanon High School are incredible.
Signed,
Timmy Steinauer
:)
Elaine
Elaine--
When you were a student at MLHS, World War II was taught to your class over a span of how many days?
S.
Two days. But he was a heck of a football coach.
Elaine
Two days? Does that mean say 40 minutes each day? So, a total of about 80 minutes?
What a coach. Hail to the Heroes.
12:30, I don’t get the point although if you’re trying to say that today’s education is basically shallow I’d agree.
Regarding Elaine’s exposure to WWII history many of her generation and mine didn’t need and 80 minutes of classroom time to learn about it.
We had fathers, uncles, cousins, mothers and grandparents that lived it and could give us far greater detailed information about its history.
I totally disagree, 4:51 PM. My parents knew how to read, write, do math. My father was an electrical engineer as well as serving in the Navy during World War II. His brother was in the Air Force and was killed on Christmas Day. Should they have home schooled me, by your standards?
So let's get back on topic. It appears that I am asking too many questions and there is a movement to shut me down. Just an FYI.
Elaine
No Elaine, I didn’t say that!
I’m just saying that your exposure to history was a lot more intense than an hour spent in a Lebo classroom.
I’d also bet that your engineer father did a lot of homeschooling honing your readin’, writing and arithmetic skills whether you realize it or not.
We didn’t call it homeschooling though back then.
We also learned how to interact with our peers through pickup ballgames and didn’t an Outreach to handle the “stress” of a new school year.
Apparently, Jan Klein is a private citizen and I don't have any Constitutional Rights. I removed a comment that has the district in an uproar. Just so you know...
Elaine
Something I don’t understand.
Shouldn’t the district get upset about financial statements.
In the fundraiser’s financial statement released 7/31/17 there is an item at the bottom of page 1 that reads:
“Loan from General Fund - $923,520.02”
At the bottom of the 8/31/17 financial statement that Loan line from the 7/31 statement disappears and is replaced with:
“Reserves from General Fund - $910,930.02”
At the bottom of the Financial Statement from 9/30/17 there is an item that reads:
“Reserve from General Fund - $910,930.02”
So, was the loan of $932,520.02 real? Was the loan paid back and the district gave the Campaign a reserve of $910,930.02 to replace it?
From 7/31/17 to 8/31/17 did someone decide the loan wasn’t really a loan and changed it description to a reserve.
That doesn’t seem to be common accounting practice to rename things without first declaring a rational for the change.
Then there’s a problem that the amount changed by $13,000. Where’d it go?
Personally, I think the district should be getting upset about some simple accounting procedures instead of comments on a blog.
The loan was for $923,530.02, not $932,530.02, 8:09 PM. There was a payment made to start paying back the loan.
Elaine
Yes, was $923,520.02 as noted first, i inadvertently transposed the 2 and 3 in later.
So perhaps simple typos explain some of the issues with the financial statements, but then again I’m not being paid to analyze or write about the campaign’s financial statements. Certain people are.
That also doesn’t explain the line item’s descrition. That can’t be waved off as a simple typo.
I wonder what that $923,520.02 was called in the fiscal year statements for 2015, 2014, 2013.
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