Education Minister Kathleen Wynne had sent an investigator to review the books of the Toronto Catholic School Board over its inability to manage its expenses. The probe comes in the aftermath of a report that the board's trustees spent excessively, particularly on benefit packages that cost taxpayers on the average $107,218 per trustee.

Heading the investigation team will be Pierre Filitrault, a former senior business official of the same board. Wynne gave Filitrault one week to go over the books and management practices of the school board.

When the report, authored by former public official Norbert Hartmann, came out this month the trustees only approved the report's recommendations to fix the spending abuses, but did not came out with a detailed plan to payback their excessive spending.

In a statement released Sunday, quoted by the Globe and Mail, Wynne said, "Given the seriousness of the problems facing this board, I need to see more than good intentions. Significant change is needed, and it's needed now."

Maria Rizzo, a member of the board, admitted in a public letter released over the weekend that there is a culture of entitlement among some trustees of the board. "I think that we are a dysfunctional board, and they need to take us over... They need to straighten out and make sure the board operates the way it should operate, which is with a goal of making sure that we provide a good education for our kids," the Globe and Mail quoted Rizzo.

Aside from the generous benefits that the board voted for themselves, the report also disclosed expensive meals with alcohol and a trip to the Dominican Republic were charged by the trustees to the board.