Which board member(s) blew past her Travel Allowance?

In the Draft Agenda portion of the April 26, 2022 board meeting, there was total chaos. What should have taken less than five minutes took over 30 minutes.

Start listening at 3:03:43 on livestream.com/richland2 when Trustee Agostini wants a report on each board member's expenditures for travel and training.

The Board Chair totally lost control of the meeting (if she ever had it, to begin with). 

The superintendent "feels uncomfortable" with sharing "anyone's personal financial use of funds" for travel and training with other board members. (3:26:20)

WHOA!!! Those aren't "personal financial funds". That's taxpayer money. That's public money. That's public information. What's up with his "feels uncomfortable"???

Trustee McFadden wanted to transfer some of her unused individual allowance to Trustee Scott, but she could not because the board has apparently gone over its total allowance for travel.

Finally the discussion got around to the impossibility that the total could have been exceeded, if Mrs. McFadden still had money in her account.

Rather than just saying that Trustee A and/or Trustee B overspent (without prior board consent), the superintendent beat around the bush. It was Classic Run-around.

Finally the superintendent stated that he should have done a better job at monitoring board member travel spending.

This is an EASY FIX. Just bill the board member(s) for the excess. Take it out of her next per diem check, until the amount is recaptured. What payroll clerk or travel reimbursement clerk failed to catch the over-expenditure? 

I'd be pretty sure that a clerk informed a supervisor, who should have informed a manager, who should have informed an administrator, who should have informed the superintendent. How far up the food chain did the notice go that one or more trustees blew through the budget cap on her individual spending allowance?

The superintendent admitted that there are board members who surpassed their travel allocations. (3:31:45) He said he should have been following each request for travel. ABSOLUTELY NOT. That's the job of a clerk, way down in the bowels of the Accounting Department.

WHO OVER-SPENT? I'll bet he knew and wouldn't say!

I'll be finding out. I shall file a FOIA request today for that information.