Increasingly frustrated with the financial problems at Florida's only historically black public university, senators who oversee college budget requests warned Florida A&M University administrators Thursday that they aren't afraid to make cuts if FAMU doesn't clean up.
"It has to be corrected," said Sen. Jim King, who sits on the Senate's higher education appropriations committee. "It is time, in my opinion, to do something really significant. If that means removing some things, so be it. But we need to get control of this to get FAMU back to where it needs to be."
Echoed committee chairwoman Sen. Evelyn Lynn, R-Daytona Beach: "When we start appropriating money, we have to know that the policies in place are being enforced. While we don't want to be cruel, we also have to be responsible fiscally."Continue reading: FAMU troubles irk lawmakers
Castell tells legislators pay problems are age-old
Lowe blames past leaders
Castell continues to point fingers in payroll mess
Castell says it ain't her fault
Unpaid students face eviction
Castell clueless
Pay makes news
Pay issue has Castell pointing fingers
Castell put us in a real fix!
ReplyDelete"Think You Better WTFU!"
ReplyDeleteOur Alma Mater has been the Quintessential Annual Financial "Laughing Stock" of Florida Higher Education for DECADES ... And instead of blaming this woman ALL the time, you all should ACTUALLY be giving her credit - For at least helping to keep Jeb's vultures away from swooping down on the School's books when he wanted to (under the guise of wanting to "assist us in getting our books in order") ... And when some of YOU were actually "Justa' Fiddlin'" up to him, and literally beggin' him to come in and do so!!
Luckily for us - and our School's future ... Our NEW Gov - AND HIS Administration - wasn't born in the era of "FAMU Sob Stories" about how we "couldn't" and "didn't" have things done right when they were supposed to, and they also don't have the history - nor apprarently the TOLERANCE - for all the BS we've been able to get away with in the past. The days of having excuses for not having our books in order went away with the invention of something known simply as Quicken - so the hourglass of excuses for our School - and possibly a lot of the people working up there responsible for it all - has hopefully FINALLY run out!
Better quit b****in' & complainin' about this woman EVERY single DAY ... "As it's painfully obvious to a lot of people reading this Board that some of you have absolutely nothing ELSE in your lives to talk about!" WE better hope that she can just get things in enough order - and get everybody up there paid - to at least keep the vultures away until our NEW Prez arrives!!
And instead of blaming this woman ALL the time, you all should ACTUALLY be giving her credit - For at least helping to keep Jeb's vultures away from swooping down on the School's books when he wanted to (under the guise of wanting to "assist us in getting our books in order") ...
ReplyDeleteJeb Bush is the very one that sent her (and Corbin) in to screw up the school to start with. "Devious plans", remember? Funny how (as has been pointed out numerous times) FAMU had clean audits up until the Bush placed Cast-hell and crew arrived.
A clean audit cannot be denied. FAMU has had financial aid issues in the past and that was some bullshit. Some folks have been paid late in the past, which was some bullshit.
ReplyDeleteBut what we have now is probably the worst it's been in the modern era. The only thing going for us is that Ammons will come in and hopefully take us to where he has at least taken NCCU, complete with clean audits and timely pay.
The money has been jacked for a very long time. FAMU has been one paycheck away from disaster for years. But Castell's bogus audits have only hurt the situation.
ReplyDeleteIf CVB is trying to correct the financial difficulties at FAMU, why does she continue to pay KPMG and it consultants separately and not pay the faculty and staff? Please let call her what she is "incompetence" and it has nothing to do with the past. FSH, WS, nor FJG was ever called down to the Legislature and make a complete JACKASS out of themselves. CVB is responsible for the mess and she needs to give back that bonus for lying to the establishment. KPMG and CVB should be ushed to jail for the crimes that have committed at FAMU. They are all crooks and need to be tried and convicted for this conspiracy against our "Dear FAMU".
ReplyDeleteEXACTLY! As for the legislature.., cut Jim King's meal allowance and ask him to function as if he has what he needs. Let's see how he maintains. All of these co-signs from loser lawmakers just to make a name and an issue bigger. If we knew what has happened here, why is it that they don't know. It iss always interesting to me that the school(k-12)/University gets drastically threatened or neglected when the people responsible should be the ones getting punished. Racism IS like cancer. Some of us even suffer from the outbreak. Wake-up alright.
ReplyDeleteFAMU has has not been an annual laughing stock at Florida Auditor General's Office for decades. FAMU received clean operational audit opinions from the State Auditor General's Office from 1978 until 2004 (the Corbin-era).
ReplyDeleteThose who claim that FAMU has not been financially accountable for decades are not basing that claim on the facts. The State Auditor General's office an objective source and it gave FAMU a clean bill of financial health for 25 consecutive years before Corbin-Gainous-Bryant began to destroy the university from within.
If you're going to claim that FAMU was a financial mess despite the State Auditor General's reports, then please provide some hard, verifiable evidence that the State Auditor General was wrong for 25 years.
Thanks for clearing the Air.
ReplyDeleteIt is (still) interesting that Castell Bryant, in light of the financial quagmire that she has created at our university, still refuses to accept blame. In a: www.tampabay.com article, she is quoted as saying, in reference to the lawmakers who are questioning her about the school's finances, "They're the stewards of the money for the people of the state of Florida." Nowhere in her comments, public or otherwise, has she said, "I am the steward of the money for the employees of the university who have not been paid." She's still pointing the fingers at other folks. Her "they're" should most certainly be changed to reflect her own incompetence. That "they're" should be "I..."
ReplyDeleteBut she's too stubborn and ornery and down-right nasty to say that, even when all the evidence points to her and her ONLY. I tell you...I've not quite, in all of my 57 years, seen a woman quite as horrible as she.
All I can remember is that beautiful document "100 Days into the Light."
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