LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The enterprise supervisor of Potterville Public Faculties has been on paid depart since “about” Aug. 20.
Monica Baker tells 6 Information she was positioned on depart following a cyber assault on her pc.
“I am still an employee of the district. I am on non-disciplinary administrative leave,” she says in a cellphone interview with 6 Information.
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Neither Potterville Public Faculties Board of Training President Stacy Ann Sipes or Interim Superintendent Sam Sinicropi had a touch upon Baker’s revelation to six Information.
Baker is married to Potterville Public Faculties Varsity Soccer Coach Jason Baker. Baker was additionally elected to the Board of Training on November 5. His time period begins January 1, though he tells 6 Information he isn’t certain he’ll take workplace.
Jason, 6 Information reported Thursday, was ordered by district officers to return district gear and keys — none of which he says he has possession of — in addition to different issues “pending the outcome of an investigation.”
Potterville Public College officers have declined to debate Baker’s standing on the district since 6 Information first reported audit findings that exposed a major deficit within the district’s fund stability on November 1.
Sinicropi, the district’s interim superintendent, tells 6 Information the depleted fund stability doesn’t seem like the results of theft.
“I don’t think any money got stolen,” Sinicropi says. “I don’t think it did. I think we had some messy bookkeeping. Spending that was not – did not – a lot of oversight on what we were spending.”
On Thursday, a spokesman for Eaton County confirmed the Eaton County Sheriff’s Division has taken the lead on legal investigations associated to Potterville.
“I just know our Sheriff’s Office is the lead, and they are working through everything which is quite significant,” Logan Bailey, Eaton County Communications Director, wrote in an electronic mail to six Information.
Bailey was unable to substantiate what number of investigations or what particular legal violations have been being investigated.
