Wednesday, July 02, 2014

It's the spending stupid!-------Taxpayer-funded job facility empty since 2011

Taxpayer-funded job facility empty since 2011 « Watchdog.org:
VACANT: Most of the $1 million grant to build a vocational facility was spent after the grant-school was no longer operational.
"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A taxpayer-funded educational facility  in Miami-Dade County intended to teach at-risk teens job skills is sitting vacant and unused, which has been the case since 2011.
The building, in Cutler Bay, fails to benefit the public despite ample initial funding, according to a county inspector general’s audit.
It’s also doubtful a single student has benefitted from the project as designed.

As part of a community grant agreement between the county and Bay Point Schools Inc, a nonprofit alternative school for minors with criminal pasts, $1 million in taxpayer money went toward the construction of a 13,400-square-foot building for the purpose of vocational training programs.

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