Two months ago, in July, Lexington residents still fumed about an attempted last-minute tax increase by the Fayette County Public Schools, which was slowly acknowledging a multi-million-dollar budget deficit that has yet to be fully quantified or explained by school district leaders.
The school district’s finance chief, Rodney Jackson, had an idea.
“Hey Will,” Jackson wrote in a July 14 email to William Somersall, a finance analyst who was hired by the district last year. The Herald-Leader obtained the email and related materials through the Open Records Act…