Will College provide details or continue hiding them?
The Verde Valley Board Advisory Committee voted unanimously at its July 1 meeting to request operating and administrative expenses from the Community College administrators for the Verde campus over the last two years. The question is, will the administrators provide this data to the Committee?
In a story by Verde Valley Independent reporter Tom Tracey, Dr. Clint Ewell, the VP for finance and administrative services, responded that “We need time to see what we can provide for them. As far as the information being anything new, this has been requested by other groups in the past, as well. The problem is our accounting system is setup by function and account.” “We really don’t collect information by location, so we will have to work on manually pulling that information out.” (You may read the entire story in the Verde Independent by clicking here.)
Ewell’s response is the same one he has given Verde Valley requests for this information over the last 18 months. The Blog hopes that the Committee will be more successful than the groups that have tried to pry this information out of the College in the past.