Christie Jordan, Hamilton County Schools director of accounting and budgetingHamilton County officials and the county’s banker scrambled Friday to fix a $3.8 million oopsy that left some 3,700 school teachers, aides and assistant principals without paychecks.
Somehow, somewhere, a button didn’t get pushed and direct deposits didn’t show up Friday in the accounts of about half of the school district’s employees. But school officials and the county trustee said they were focused on fixing the problem rather than laying blame.
“We’re not putting the blame down anywhere,” said Board of Education Chairman Mike Evatt. “It was just a three-way communication breakdown.”
Still, all three parties said they would make it right and that teachers would not be held responsible for any fees incurred for overdrafting their accounts.
“We’re sorry for all the inconvenience people have suffered,” said Christie Jordan, the school system’s director of accounting and budgeting.