Another embarrassment for GCS

Apparently, GCS staffers had to whip out their own credit cards recently when buying supplies...this from today's N&R:

Some school employees learned about system spending cuts in haphazard — and embarrassing — fashion in recent days when they tried to use school-owned debit cards to pay for supplies at local stores. The cards were rejected and the purchases denied.

Nora Carr, Green’s chief of staff, confirmed the purchasing orders and debit card accounts for the schools were frozen over the past few weeks, but school employees weren’t notified, which left some to find out at the register.

“We didn’t handle the communications well internally on that,” Carr said. “That was a place where we made an error.”

The funds have since been reinstated.

That's ridiculous.

E.C. :)