Mason County school district under investigation

This from the Ledger Independent:

Since June, the Mason County School District has been under investigation by the Office of Education Accountability in Frankfort...

[Karen Timmel, division manager of investigations at OEA] did acknowledge that two OEA personnel were in the district on June 16 and 17, and a "large amount" of documents were secured during that visit. Timmel said documents were also requested two additional times, and the agency "waited quite a while" on documentation from Superintendent Tim Moore for the third request...

Moore said Tuesday the investigation was initiated after a complaint was filed with the OEA and questions have focused upon travel expenses, servicing of his vehicle at the school garage, and the provisions of his employment contract. Questions have also been posed about providing a vehicle allowance versus use of a school vehicle by Assistant Superintendents Kelly Middleton and Liz Petitt, Moore said. He said right now there are three school vehicles provided for employee use: Gerald Fulk, for purposes as director of pupil personnel; one for the maintenance garage; and one for transportation (bus) garage. Regarding the document requests, Moore said "Anything related to contracts, travel, whatever they asked for, we gave them." Moore said this is the first time the district has been under an OEA investigation, but there have been times the OEA has contacted him on issues such as principal hiring...

Board of Education Chairwoman Janet West was also contacted Tuesday. West said she met with two OEA personnel and the entire school board is aware of the investigation. West alluded to the allegations being made under an anonymous system and said "I did not care about the anonymous person and then I asked them "Do you have a grievance or several greivances?" They were very vague," West said. "I met with two ladies and I believe Ann (Porter) did, out of courtesy and kindness," said West, adding she had her lawyer with her for the meeting.

West said the women could provide no specifics and she didn't feel comfortable and she decided to discontinue the meeting. "They asked questions in all kinds of arenas...I told them I wanted a list of items from them and they wouldn't provide them, so I ended the meeting," said West...