Law enforcement is investigating after the North Kansas City School District discovered hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments for potentially fake consulting services.
A compliance report released after the Feb. 24 board meeting as part of the district’s annual audit says the district discovered procurement requirements weren’t being followed for payments to an IT vendor.
A district IT employee approving invoices for a vendor “had a familial relationship with an executive level employee at this vendor” but didn’t disclose the conflict, according to the compliance report. The district discovered it had been paying the vendor $9,000 per month since fiscal year 2020 for general consulting services…