It was a long night at the Fayette County Board of Education. The kind of meeting where the clock ticks past 10 p.m., the coffee cools, and the words “fiscal responsibility” start sounding like a prayer someone forgot the meaning of.
By the end of it, the board had voted against letting district employees even discuss collective bargaining — and then, moments later, decided a full forensic audit of their own finances was, well, a bit too much for a Monday.
The votes in both cases were 3–2, which is quickly becoming the most Lexington number there is. Monica Mundy and Amanda Ferguson were the lone yes votes on collective bargaining. The majority said they’d rather wait for an “employee-led work group.” Translation: let’s study the problem to death and hope the room empties out before it bites us…