Brickbat: Worth Every Penny

In California, Cajon Valley Union Superintendent David Miyashiro ran up nearly $400,000 in charges on his school district credit card between May 2022 and March 2024. Miyashiro spent thousands of dollars for professional conferences and memberships in education associations, while also spending $76,000 on hotels, $30,000 on airfare, $10,000 on rideshares, and $50,000 on food plus another $115,700 on catering; his average purchase during that period was $19,000. Miyashiro is one of the highest-paid superintendents in the state, receiving a $408,000 annual salary, an $800 monthly car allowance, and a $300 monthly stipend for business expenses.

Comments

[Rick James]

And?

[Stuck in California]

I kind of get it. I'd go to every damned conference, symposium, lecture, and retreat I could if I was in his spot, just to avoid spending another hour in El Cajon.

[Don't look at me!]

Bet he kept all the airline miles too.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Takes a lot of cajones.

[kevrob]

Trying to be the new
Frank Tassone ?

[John F. Carr]

$76,000 on hotels is $208 per day. I don't think I've ever spent that much on a hotel room.

[Don't look at me!]

A room near the San Francisco airport last week started at $400.

[defaultdotxbe]

It was over the course of not quite 2 years, so $113 per day, if he had a hotel every single night. In other words, probably quite a bit more than even $208 for the nights he did stay in a hotel.

[Bubba Jones]

$250 is pretty easy to spend for a conference hotel.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Expanding the math a bit, there are 699 days between March 1 2022 and March 30 2024 (to give the fullest extent).

If he had a hotel room every single day: $108.

If he was on travel 10% of the time, that would be more like $1134 per day.

[Social Justice is neither]

Even trying to steelman this level of spending by assuming it’s not personal but team/department level just all on his CC, one must ask why anyone would do that. Either he’s trying to evade oversight, approval is nightmare (not mutually exclusive I know) or they just cannot plan ahead; no answer makes it better governance.

[Bubba Jones]

Credit Card charges get reconciled just like any other spending.

Notice how they have this precise breakdown?

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

Gee, whaddaya think taxes are for?

[LIBtranslator]

There's plenty more where that came from, right? Right?