Crossett School District superintendent Dr. Bruce Bryant was suspended with pay Monday following a report on legislative audit findings and a lengthy Crossett School Board executive session.
The board, voting 3-2 for the suspension, cited no reason for Bryant’s suspension but earlier in the meeting, prior to the executive session, the school district’s business manager Norman Hill gave a report on recent state Legislative Audit findings that showed two employees were receiving a significantly higher salary than what was approved in the district salary schedule.
The audit report included a March 12 management letter, saying that the district’s assistant superintendent and the football coach/athletic director are being paid more than what was approved in the district salary schedule.
The assistant superintendent should be making $79,567, according to the approved salary schedule. However, a contract totaling $99,276 was issued.
The football coach/athletic director should receive $63,505 based on the salary schedule but was making $72,764.
After returning from executive session, the board voted 3-2 to suspend Bryant with pay. Board members Jeff Langley and Eddie Goodson cast the dissenting votes. No time limit for the suspension was given.
Hill, the district’s business manager and business consultant for a number of school districts, agreed to serve as interim superintendent.
It would seem the Superintendent would have his pay docked since he was handing out public funds and not his own funds. Isn’t there a way to stop the abuse of public monies and shouldn’t it start with getting the money recouped?
Maybe you can look into why he hired his wife for the position of head of the special education department, when Crossett already had one?
Suspended with pay? Isn’t that called a vacation?
Maybe people should have looked at the fact that he was in the way of what the school board really wanted to do which was to cut Brad Bradshaw’s pay. This was all a front to make him look bad and for the board to move forward with its own agenda.