ENTERTAINMENT: Lady Gaga documentary begins streaming on Netflix C4 CLARENDON SUN Main Street Manning brings event vendors together A7 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2017 | Serving South Carolina since October 15, 1894 75 cents CFO will review small purchases reasonable and allowable quire formal district office approval petitive price quotes requirement. Griner says his goal is for programs’ use. and price quotes. A state Department The district has already paid all that District CFO Chris Gri- of Education audit report released last money back to the state Department to look at district orders ner made the remarks week detailed that two employees in of Education and implemented a pro- Thursday at Sumter the district’s Early Childhood Educa- grammatic corrective action plan that under $2,500 randomly School District’s Board of tion Program allegedly misused about includes conducting a monthly review Trustees’ monthly Fi- $177,000 in state funding in recent of all purchases under $2,500 for the BY BRUCE MILLS GRINER
[email protected] nance Committee meeting years, at least in part because the cost early childhood program to determine at the district office. of the transactions was less than the if they are reasonable and allowable Sumter School District’s new chief According to the school district’s $2,500 threshold. items for program use. financial officer will make it a stan- procurement purchasing code, pur- The audit report details the early Griner said similar efforts on his dard procedure in his job to randomly chase orders for transactions