During my campaign, I made a promise: if I didn't win the Park Hill School Board seat, I would launch a citizen watchdog website to track district spending — by June 1st.
That site is live today.
Visit PHBudget.comAn independent watchdog tracking Park Hill School District spending — free, public, and fact-backed.
"If I don't win, the district doesn't get to breathe a sigh of relief. I will launch a citizen-run budget transparency website — PHBudget.com — by June 1st, so every Park Hill taxpayer can see exactly where their money is going."
Ten months of Park Hill treasurer's reports and Bills for Approval — read line by line, with sources cited for every finding.
The check register tells a different story. When you trace Access & Inclusion spending across every department it hides in, the real number is $561,000 — nearly 10× what's reported.
Park Hill paid Collaborative School Culture LLC $490,203 for Restorative Practices training — spread across 12 schools, classified as Staff Development. Never shows up in the A&I budget line.
Workers' compensation, non-employee insurance, and other purchased services have all exceeded their full-year budgets — and no public budget amendment has been filed.
Every claim is sourced. Every dollar is traced. Real public documents.
I ran for the Park Hill School Board because I believed — and still believe — that our district deserves leadership that looks at the data, listens to parents, and plans for the future. I lost that race. But the issues that drove me to run haven't gone away.
As a Tax Professional with over 10 years of experience in tax and finance, I know how to read a budget. I know when numbers don't add up. And I know that the best accountability is public accountability.
My wife works for the district. My two daughters attend Park Hill schools. This is not abstract for me. PHBudget.com is my way of staying in this fight — not as a candidate, but as a citizen who refuses to stop paying attention.
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