LEXINGTON, Ky. (FOX 56) — A Lexington lobbying firm has invoked a clause to terminate its contract with Fayette County Public Schools (FCPS), citing repeated struggles to provide accurate information not just to the district’s legal team, but the press and public.
In an Oct. 24 correspondence to Superintendent Demetrus Liggins and Board of Education chair Tyler Murphy shared on social media, Piper-Smith founder Abby Piper wrote that the team had been supplied with inaccurate information to present to lawmakers, requesting open records that had already been obtained by members of the press and people living outside the county.
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The move came on the heels of Thursday’s report that Auditor Allison Ball would no longer ask the Kentucky General Assembly for funds to help her office’s investigation into potential negligent spending within the district after a multimillion-dollar budget shortfall and claims of mismanaged funds. Fayette County’s board of education had announced the district’s financing of an external audit soon after.
Ball had said her office’s examination “could cover essentially the same matters that a forensic audit would.”…