Eleven lawn mowers that Akron Public Schools traded in because they were no longer usable never made it to the Macedonia equipment dealer that accepted the trade-ins.
The mowers instead were delivered to the homes of three Akron Public Schools employees, including the Wadsworth home of then-Facilities Services Director Steven Keenan.
Keenan advertised one of the district’s traded-in mowers as “practically new” because it had only 57 hours of use. He was selling the lawn mower, which had a trade-in value of $1,000, for $3,500. It sold…