HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) -
After millions of dollars are wasted in the Huntsville City School System, officials are explaining how it happened and working to make sure it doesn't happen again.
That's news that parents are happy to hear. Chelsey Horton said those millions could have gone toward better things.
"There is a lack of text book in the classrooms they are falling apart or they don't have them," Horton said. "It could go towards supplies for people who can't afford it instead of building a brand new school when there is one two miles away."
School officials agree with these concerned moms. More than $60 million have been wasted over the last seven years.
"In some cases it wasn't money that was misappropriated or wasted it was the money that wasn't sought after," said Superintendent Dr. Casey Wardynski. "There was evidence in the past that business practices in the school could improve. That evidence went back to 2005."
Wardynski said mistakes like not buying items in bulk and many other mistakes lead to the missing millions.
"This past year we saw that a number of our students had filed for free and reduced lunch hadn't filed this year and it came to hundreds of families that would amount to millions of dollars," Wardynski said.
Now that a major money problem has been brought to light, Wardynski plans to keep money from slipping through the cracks again.
"There are clearly people who are working in our district who don't need to be here and they will be hearing from us next week," he said.
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