Galston High School P and C president David Byrne and Hornsby State Liberal MP Judy Hopwood are unhappy about how the State Government spent the school's BER funding on administration costs.
THE State Government has been slammed by Hornsby State Liberal MP Judy Hopwood, for wasting thousands of dollars of Galston High School’s Building the Education Revolution (BER) funds on administration costs.
Mrs Hopwood said the school community was elated after being awarded $200,000 in BER funding to enhance the school’s facilities.
“The optimism was tempered with the news 17 per cent of the $200,000 was allocated to a project management firm, while eight per cent was to be paid to the Department of Commerce for reasons unknown,” she said.
“This meant 25 per cent of the $200,000 awarded to the school was quarantined straight away by the NSW Government.”
Galston High School’s P and C president David Byrne said there was nothing revolutionary about the works carried out at the school.
“What was left of the $200,000 Galston High School received after the stripping of compulsory ‘administration costs’ was spent on maintenance such as re-asphalting and the laying of new carpet,” Mr Byrne said.
“This is all stuff that should have been carried out by the State Government anyway.
“There’s nothing revolutionary about carrying out essential maintenance in a school.”
Mrs Hopwood said it was no surprise interim findings of the taskforce into the BER program had found the NSW Government schools were likely to pay as much as double of what Catholic schools were charged given the way in which projects, such as those at Galston, were managed.
“I challenge the education minister to explain why government schools were not given the same ‘value for money’ as Catholic schools in the delivery of their BER projects,” she said.
Source: whereilive
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