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The Stimulus Needs More Stimulus!
From Brattleboro, Vermont:
ROCKINGHAM — The Rockingham School District will have to borrow $600,000 to make payroll because the Windham Northeast Supervisory Union business office failed to get information to the Department of Education in time.
So the system is going to eat some interest penalties because it didn’t get paperwork finished on deadline. So, what exactly were employees in Rockingham doing that might have contributed to their delay?
The business office has been asking for more help for months, Allbee said, and she said the office got behind while waiting for the authority to bring an extra hand into the finance department.
The Rockingham School District approved the use of stimulus money to handle the extra work caused by the complicated stimulus process.
So, they have so much paperwork involved in using Stimulus money, they have to dip into Stimulus funds to pay for the paperwork – the volume of which prevented them from getting their mandatory statistical report to the state in time to qualify for the release of tax dollars.
I thought the whole point of Stimulus was to put a bunch of people out in a field digging holes; not pulling legitimate ditch-diggers away from ditches to dig additional holes elsewhere.
Stimulus – it’s not just for breakfast anymore.
