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11. Use it or lose it at the end of a fiscal period leads to a lot of this kind of spending - this seems over the top

Wed Mar 11, 2026, 09:14 AM

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If these were budget monies for food -- it would seem like a huge MRE order, nonperishables, etc would make a lot more sense.

The tales of $500 hammers and $1000 toilets have been used for 50 years to bemoan government waste.

When I was a teacher and department, if we had title money that would expire we might order a variety of things:
tech money: order extra computers, monitors, software
PD money: conferences or training that had been denied earlier all of a sudden opened up
reading funds: could become books or some sort of literacy training software license

But never was it high end surf & turf

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