The Nashville Metro School Board plans to hire two full-time auditors to convince taxpayers its spending their money wisely after learning the schools director exploited a loophole to circumvent board approval for large purchases.

The metro school board requires approval for district contracts of more than $100,000, but WTVF recently exposed how schools director Shawn Joseph’s team broke up large expenses into smaller contracts to avoid the oversight.

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The practice resulted in millions of dollars spent on contracts that did not go through proper purchasing policies, unbeknownst to the board.

Now, board member Will Pinkston is proposing a plan to hire two full-time auditors dedicated to overseeing the district’s $900 million budget, at an annual cost of more than $200,000.

“The conversations that have happened this year have been healthy in my opinion,” he said. “They’ve created a healthy tension in the system, if you will, that has led to more introspection about how we are spending money.”

The public is watching more closely as well, and they don’t seem to like what they see.

“We’re looking at this because we keep getting complaints about spending,” board member Amy Frogge told her colleagues, according to WTVF.

In June, Joseph petitioned the school board to request an extra $3.5 million from the city, in part because his administration budgeted for $7.5 million in extra money from increased enrollment that never materialized, The Tennessean reports.

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Joseph blamed the district’s money problems on “unexpected mandated costs” that included increased expenses from Obamacare, payments to charter schools, and other things.

Mayor David Briley supported Joseph’s request for more money, but warned the school system to get its act together.

“It’s important to understand that in the coming budget year, there will be little room for supplemental appropriations and every department will need to live within their means,” spokeswoman Judith Byrd said in June.

Pinkston’s proposal would increase scrutiny with hired auditors, as well as a new $25,000 spending threshold for contracts, above which would require board approval.

“Now by lowering that threshold it will just cause more contracts to come to the board floor, create more opportunity for review and, therefore, more transparency to the public,” he said.

Pinkston believes the $200,000 expense would be well worth it to get a handle on the district’s finances.

“I believe that spending a little bit of money to ensure savings in a very, very large budget is the right approach and ultimately will pay for itself over time,” he said.

Joseph told the board he supports the changes, though it remains unclear how the board will pay for the new auditors.

The board’s governance committee approved the measure in mid-November, and it’s expected to come before the full school board in the coming weeks.