New CCSD Superintendent Bringing In Cronies

The new CCSD superintendent has decided to bring in his buddies from Colorado to kind of but not really work for CCSD.
From the LVRJ: Clark County School District Superintendent Dwight Jones said he has permission from the Lincy Foundation to pay consultants by reallocating $400,000 from a $13.5 million donation made in 2008.
The former Colorado education commissioner plans to hire previous colleagues . He told the School Board on Thursday he did not want to use general funds because of the district's financial woes and got the foundation's OK to use part of a gift for empowerment schools.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/schools-chief-to-use-part-of-gift-to-pay-consultants-113576204.html
There are several problems with this:
First, he is bringing in friends from his past employment sites and I presume, Colorado. They will not be CCSD employees, so who do they answer to? Just the superintendent? Does the Board have oversight of these employees?
Second, the money is coming from a fund that is supposed to help empowerment schools. How is this going to help empowerment schools? Empowerment Schools usually are the lowest performing schools and they need that money.
Next, according to the Las Vegas Sun, Jones wants to spend $1,000,000 for a budget analysis.
From the Sun: Dwight Jones, the new Clark County schools superintendent, said Thursday that he will seek up to $1 million in private funding for a rigorous analysis of the School District’s $2 billion budget.
The money would go to temporarily hire analysts to analyze “our return on investment,” he told a regularly scheduled meeting of the school board.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/jan/13/schools-superintendent-seeks-1-million-private-fun/
One million dollars to analyze the CCSD budget? Is the budget that complicated? Isn't that what the budget analysts for CCSD supposed to do? Who does he plan on hiring? 85% or so of the budget goes for salaries and rest for supplies and other bills. It's not that complicated that you need to spend $1,000,000 to analyze the budget.
Watch out for this guy. This is starting stink and he has been on the job for only a month or so.