Did you know that construction of Serene Hills Elementary was significantly behind schedule as early as October 2006?

Posted on December 12, 2007 by David Lovelace.
Categories: Administration, Finance.

See the district’s own graph of expected and actual cumulative costs for the construction of this school ^TPIA. The Board members who supposedly have backgrounds in construction and finance were not alarmed by the significant deviation in the schedule?

Month	Original Projected Cumulative Cost	Actual Cumulative Cost	Difference	% of Actual vs. Projected	% Deviation from Projected
12/06	$3,028,392	$2,163,352	$865,040	71.4%	28.6%
1/07	$4,514,548	$2,476,454	$2,038,094	54.9%	45.1%
2/07	$6,154,927	$2,962,869	$3,192,058	48.1%	51.9%
3/07	$7,837,367	$3,709,514	$4,127,853	47.3%	52.7%

Simply looking at the divergence of the expected and actual expenses should have set off alarm bells much earlier.

Who exactly is in command of the ship?

This reminds me of a question similar to that that asked by Senator Howard Baker during the Watergate scandal:

“What did they know, and when did they know it?”