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Entries tagged with 'audit'Tuesday morning document dumpI've got a couple of district documents for you all. Nothing new or earth-shattering, but they relate to posts that got some decent discussion here, so I thought I'd share: ** You can read here the full plan for Hinojosa's... The 2007-08 audit report is hereAmong the slew of documents, financial reports and other information trustees got today, was a report from Deloitte & Touche on the 2007-08 audit. The good news: No big surprises. The bad news: Lots of problems uncovered last year are... Budget deficit leftoversI have a notebook full of loose ends relating to Sunday's postmortem on the budget deficit. First, the reporting for the story leaned heavily on the management letter that the district got last June from it's independent auditors, which you... A report from this morn's audit committee meetingThe board's audit committee met this morning to hear an update from district finance staff on steps they've taken to shore up the accounting, oversight and general management of DISD resources. The district's 2007-08 financial books are currently under audit... Rep. Tony Goolsby calls for a state audit of DISDRep. Goolsby, who's in a tight re-election race in District 102, wrote to state education czar Robert Scott today asking him to step into the district's budget mess. "Only with your oversight of the final audit process can parents, teachers... Peeling the $64 million onionJust how out-of-whack was district spending last year, when it blew the bank by a reported $64 million? Well, looks like the total budget deficit was somewhere closer to $90 million. That, though, was reduced to $64 million after DISD... Thursday meeting leftovers: Audit editionThere was an informative meeting of the board's audit committee Thursday morning that shed some light on what steps the district has undertaken to implement the changes recommended by the Deloitte audit. I don't have a ton of detail, but... Dallas ISD Daily DishWhat the media, blogs and others are saying today. ** DISD gets $500k for art supplies. (Third item down.) ** Dallas.org talks to a labor lawyer who didn't like what he/she heard at last week's meeting re: unemployment benefits. **... Everything old is new again, audit-wise at leastDoing some last-minute research as we prepare for today's audit release. Found something interesting in our clips I thought I'd pass along. I'm told that one of the auditor's findings will be problems with payroll verifications. Another issue is that... The audit report: It's on (apparently)No indication yet that tomorrow's meeting to unveil the long-delayed 2006-07 financial audit won't go off as planned at 2 p.m. Frontburner posted a little tidbit about the report, to which I'll add a comment I got today from somebody... More layoffs coming at Ross Avenue?UPDATED: During a discussion late yesterday with Steve Korby and Carolyn Jones about the how they'll use the over-due audit findings to shore up the district's finance shop, the two let drop that another as-of-yet unnamed administrative department will be... The late audit? It's coming Thursday. We think. Maybe. Probably. (Cross your fingers.)A meeting of the Board of Trustees' Audit Committee is scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday, with this lone agenda item: "Presentation by Deloitte & Touche, LLP on External Audit for Fiscal Year 2006-2007." However, school officials are hedging on whether... The cost of financial reform: $11 million.District finance brass will brief trustees in a little while on the status of the district's efforts to beef up and reform how it tracks and spends your tax money. A copy of the briefing update is available here. Much... The 2008-09 budget: Winners, losers.I spent much of yesterday scraping the budget numbers off the pdfs I had previously posted and importing them into Excel. It made my brain hurt, but I think ultimately it was a worthwhile effort. The nut of what I... This week's School Board agenda ...... was posted this morning. A quick perusal found a few things of interest. Lemme know what we missed: ** Big changes coming to Spruce High School: "Under House Bill 1, Texas Education Code 39, Section 39.1324 (e), the commissioner... Pulling back the curtain on DISD grant spendingEarlier this week, I got a copy of an "Exception Report" (you can read it here) from auditors with the U.S. Department of Education who recently examined district grant spending from the 2005-06 school year. The report documents how the... |