Luxury Splurge! AZ Taxpayers Stuck with District’s $75K Bill
Автор: GoldwaterInstitute
Загружено: 2024-11-26
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From pricy hotels to fancy meals, AZ school district officials pampered themselves on the taxpayers’ dime.
A $42,000 hotel bill for a taxpayer-funded vacation at a four-star resort. A staggering $22,000 in catering costs for 30 people…over just two days.
Those are some of the ways the Tolleson Union High School District in Avondale, Ariz., blew through $76,969 in taxpayer money on what amounted to luxury vacations for school board members and administrators, public records obtained by the Goldwater Institute reveal. And while Arizona’s Open Meetings Law requires public access to school board meetings, members of the public were practically shut out from these so-called “Board and Administrator Retreats.”
The costs for these four-star resort retreats, held in 2023 at the JW Marriott Starr Pass in Tucson and in 2024 at the Hilton Sedona Resort at Bell Rock, came out of general operating funds—the same funds that pay for teacher salaries and education programs.
The Goldwater Institute filed public records requests seeking specific cost information in July but did not receive the records until mid-November—after Tolleson Union voters approved a new bond and a budget override, and also re-elected one of the governing board members for another four-year term.
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