Fayette Schools Superintendent Demetrus Liggins told reporters this week the district should have handled its announcement of a proposed tax increase differently, after Kentucky’s attorney general found the process unlawful.
The school district and school board received heavy criticism from residents and public officials for not announcing a proposal to raise the city’s occupational license tax until Memorial Day weekend, just days before a school board vote.
School officials initially defended the process when Attorney General Russell Coleman deemed it unlawful, but in an interview this week with TV station Fox56, Liggins vowed to “do better.”…