A group of Hempfield School District parents was âhorrifiedâ after the school board approved what initially appeared to be more than $20,000 in new furniture for a âsuiteâ for the districtâs chief financial and operations officer, Mark Brooks. The contract, awarded to Harrisburg-based Phillips Workplace Interiors at an April school board meeting, includes upholstered office chairs at nearly $500 a piece, multiple walnut-colored desks costing more than $600 each, two $200 bookcases and a nearly $2,000 âprivacy wall.â The parents said in an email to LNP | LancasterOnline the decision was a âslap in the face of taxpayers, the students and the teachers.â âWe genuinely hope that our suspicions were misguided,â they said.