“It’s important to be away from our building with the facilitator.”
–Melanie Amrhein, Executive Director of the Louisiana Office of Student Financial Assistance (LOSFA), justifying the expenditure of $3,500 for use of a private conference facility (SSA Consultants) and an SSA moderator/speaker for LOSFA management team’s annual Strategic Planning Session on the heels of the layoff of 58 agency employees because of budgetary cutbacks–despite the availability of sufficient state office space in several state office buildings in the Capitol Park complex in downtown Baton Rouge.
Louisiana Voice 
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