BATON ROUGE - BREC Chief Financial Officer, Don Johnson, submitted his letter of resignation to the agency. Johnson is one of several high-profile employees to either quit or be fired.

During Thursday night's special meeting, BREC interim Superintendent Janet Simmons addressed the personnel changes during her report. She says Director of Finance Rhonda Williams will be taking over the CFO's responsibilities, but will remain in her capacity as finance director.

"Probably spent 5 hours with her this week, she's got it covered. So, I'm not worried about it," Simmons said.

"You don't foresee there being a delay?" a commissioner asked.

"No, I don't foresee there's going to be any delay in that. I don't see there being a delay in the budget. We're moving forward on that. I really don't see t

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