Detroit Board of Education Truck Coming to Neighborhood on Two Occasions including March 16, 2015
Affiant states:
“At the end of February of 2015, community residents talked about furniture and other
equipment was being unloaded and brought to Longfellow Elementary School, in Saginaw,
Michigan. For years, there were rumors going about regarding some kind of scam where
Sodexo employees and a Board Member were taking school assets but there was no solid proof.
On or about February 11, 2015, I watched a news story about the rumor that Delena SpatesAllen, a School Board Member of the Saginaw Public School District had a conflict of interest
where she voted to close schools in the district and a vote was coming up, where she seemed
poised to vote for the closure of yet another school while developing plans to open a competing
Charter school.
Citizens who frequented the area of the new Charter were mentioning that the Charter was
already able to acquire all the furniture from the school. At this time, Spates-Allen was serving
as the CFO for the proposed Charter and also the Treasurer for the School Board. As a result
of the news story, Selena Spates-Allen resigned her position as a School Board member.
This was a story everyone was concerned about in the community. People now began talking
about a big warehouse next to proposed Charter School where there school furniture was being
stored at (3380 Carver Drive Saginaw, MI 48603). Citizens were not sure, and didn’t like the
idea that a Charter was given public assets for a school that closed if the Board member had
closed the school just to open her own Charter.
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