District questions Gentile's hotline statements

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Tuesday, February 5, 2013

District questions Gentile's hotline statements

BY TERRY SCHMIDA Citizen Staff
tschmida@keysnews.com

Inter-office emails from School District Director of Finance and Performance Ken Gentile to his former intern assistant Amy Reno, call into question statements Gentile made during a December Audit and Finance Committee meeting.

Gentile, who was put in charge of setting up and running a whistle-blower hotline with the Oregon-based EthicsPoint corporation, told attendees at th...

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School District Administration Should Have to Live in Motor Home

Submitted on Wed, 02/06/2013 - 8:50am by Italian Rose

If we required School District Management to live in motor homes instead of site built houses, then we could fire them as needed and run them out of town with a police escort up to the Turnpike. Why can't we get the School District right?

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Strike three

Submitted on Tue, 02/05/2013 - 9:53pm by Apples to apples

Just wait until the results of the state audit are released at the end of month. Three years of bad audits. Collectively the taxpayers are forking over a quarter of a million to two employees to run the district finances, when they subcontract out the audit of the internal accounts in the 11 schools, hire an employee living in Texas to run purchasing and an employee living in Mississippi to do the books for finance. What is wrong with this picture???

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Question Gentile

Submitted on Tue, 02/05/2013 - 12:46pm by just ask me

Porter can only take the position, "I'm new and didn't know that was happening" so many times. His time is up, either make the decision to cut Gentile loose or craw out on the ledge with him and then both of them will fall. Just saying.

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What part of criminal

Submitted on Tue, 02/05/2013 - 9:27am by Unbelievable

What part of criminal activity doesn't the board & Mr Porter understand? As a person of faith I am disgusted by Gentile's repeated dishonest actions all the while wrapping himself up in the Bible. he was dishonest about being a CPA, uses religion like a bully on the staff, and seems to be making financial errors now too. Its all wrong and unacceptable behavior and to add insult to injury that this individual is permitted to receive hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars is simply unbelievable!