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Former W.Va. college officials acquitted
Two former executives of an Eastern Panhandle vocational school have been acquitted of misdemeanor charges related to missing financial records.
Robert Sisk had served as director of South Branch Career and Technical Center in Petersburg for 19 years. Tamela Kitzmiller of Elk Garden had served as financial services coordinator for 14. Both resigned in 2007.
Sisk and Kitzmiller were both found not guilty by a Grant County magistrate this week of alteration and deletion of computer data.
Sisk was also acquitted of petit larceny. He’d been accused of removing a hard drive from a computer.
Former secretary Lee Ann Shreve pleaded no contest on Aug. 14 to the alteration charge, according to magistrate court records.
Last fall, independent auditors found personal credit card purchases, improper payments and missing receipts and records. State Board of Education spokeswoman Liza Cordeiro said the audit also found “a hostile environment” at the school that had generated concerns for staff and students.
The state board declared the center to be in a state of emergency in April and took control of the facility.
Cordeiro and Grant County Schools Superintendent Marsha Carr-Lambert said this week’s verdicts do not affect the state’s oversight of the school.
The center serves students in Grant, Hardy and Pendleton counties.
