Friday, January 27, 2017

PAYROLL CHECKS ARE BOUNCING AT BISD...AGAIN

By Juan Montoya
Image result for bounced checksBy now, it has become par for the course that someone will drop the ball over at the Brownsville Independent School District.
If you were one of the 700 employees in the district who received your pay direct deposit and the creditors were paid automatically by your bank, that payment may not have gone through or bounced.

 According to a message sent to all employees by the administration, "Due to technical difficulties in processing the BISD biweekly payroll through the Automated Clearing House (ACH), the payments made to banks for our BISD biweekly employees were delayed last night."

The message further states that "The district has taken immediate action to limit any inconvenience to our biweekly employees by working with banks to ensure that the appropriate deposits are made today to the appropriate banks. The district will work with all banks to ensure that any fees caused by this payment delay are waived and that employees are not negatively impacted by this complication. BISD apologizes to the biweekly employees for this inconvenience."

This is the first time that the district has experienced a technical difficulty of this sort. All steps will be taken to ensure that it does not reoccur. For questions, call the BISD Payroll Department at 548-8391."

The last part of this self-serving email may not ring true to some of us who distinctly remember that under former CFO Tony Fuller in 2011.

At that time, three large checks caused 134 smaller checks on BISD accounts to be returned due to insufficient funds.
The large checks – for $260,000, $229,030.93 and $218,413.30 – did not bounce, but paying them caused 134 checks for smaller amounts to be returned due to insufficient funds, Chief Financial Officer Tony Fuller said.
At the time, Fuller explained that the large checks, which were issued at a time when BBVA Compass Bank, the district’s depository bank, was updating system software. System alerts that normally would have flagged the need to move additional funds into BISD accounts were removed during the software-updating process, Fuller said, which resulted in the overdraft problem.

This year, the depository is Wells Fargo, who has told the district it will waive any fees charged for the failure of the BISD to make the deposits. 

Now, what excuse will current CFO Lorenzo Sanchez have for the snafu this time?

16 comments:

Anonymous said...

The following are the most ethical businessmen in Brownsville: Rene Cardenas. Ricky Cardenas Joe Zayas Sr Jorge Sanchez Rick Bucholtz Jim Wilkinson Gelfer Investments Robert Captain Bob Sanchez Sam Pate Cris Valadez and Valadez Water Company Michael Pashos Harry McNair Dairy Queen Corporation HEB Corporation Luke Fruia Tioton twins

CC Taxpayer! said...

But yet the corruption continues within the BISD!

Anonymous said...

Anonymous at 11:31 Cris valadez "ethical businessman?" HaHaHa!You win the joke of the day award.

chief cool arrow said...

oh its ok, its only the lower echlon of the staff not the teachers or administration los big wigs. safis

Anonymous said...

BOARD PRESIDENT DO SOMETHING BESIDES SITTING DOWN ON YOUR ASS AND PRETEND NOTHING'S HAPPENING IN BISD.

Anonymous said...

BOARD you need to remove our superintendent our district is moving backwards.

Anonymous said...

Who drop the ball in payroll ?
Technical difficulties !

BULL SHIT KENNETH LIECK NEEDS TO GO HE ALWAYS HAS BULL SHIT TO TELL THE SCHOOL BOARD AND THE COMMUNITY WHEN HE FUCKS UP.
THE BOARD NEEDS TO TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO REMOVE THIS PERSON IN CHARGE OF PAYROLL ASAP.
Superintendent needs to take action if not she also needs to be remove and get some new young blood to move this district forward not backwards.

IF NOT GOING TO REMOVE SUPERINTENDENT JUST NAME IT .

B-BACKWARDS
I- INDEPENDENT
S- SCHOOL
D-DISTRICT

Anonymous said...

CESAR LOPEZ DONT ACT PENDEJO AS PRESIDENT !!!

Anonymous said...

Employees have still not been paid and it's now Friday after 6:30 p.m. I feel bad because everyone depends on a timely paycheck, What REALLY happened???

Anonymous said...

What the hell is wrong with the people in BISD?

Anonymous said...

Satire, pure SATIRE!

Anonymous said...

BISD lets move forward again !

Yes for Dr.SAP and her team !

Anonymous said...

Looks like BISD has serious problems....and unfortunately there is no one with any moral courage in BISD to challenge the corruption.

CC TAXPAYER said...

WE THE COMMUNITY CAN SEE THE BISD CENTRAL MAIN OFFICE ADMINISTRATION CORRUPTION WITH THREE BOARD MEMBERS INVOLVED.
SOON WE WILL SEE JAIL TIME !

Anonymous said...

B-ACKWARDS
I- NDEPENDENT
S- CHOOL
D-ISTRICT

YES FOR CHARTER SCHOOLS !

JOE said...

KENNETH LIECK SUCKS WHEN HE WAS AT THE CITY OF BROWNSVILLE .
KENNETH LIECK SUCKS IN BISD.
KENNETH LIECK SUCKS IN PAYROLL.
KENNETH LIECK SUCK AT HOME .

rita