From the Sun-Sentinel's previously mentioned profile of Steve Gallon III [emphasis added].
The schools’ financial team began to caution the boards against overspending, flag certain payments, and raise concerns about Gallon’s seemingly unchecked authority.
“I started warning board members,” said [Katrina] Lunsford, the financial manager.
She also said: “He, from an overall standpoint, just started taking charge and taking over.”
Records show the boards at times responded with indifference or hostility to issues raised by Lunsford and the accountant she hired to help her with the schools, Jim D. Lee.
When Lunsford requested documentation for a $625 bank transaction on Sept. 25 from Dorothy Gay, the board president for the Palm Beach County school, Gay provided it — along with an indignant email:
“Let the record reflect the following, which I will make perfectly clear this one time only and never again question me about any ‘funds’ or state to me, ‘show documentation’...”
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