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State board adopts USDB audit requirements, moves USDB finances under USBE oversight and requires regular contingency reporting
Summary
The Utah State Board of Education voted to adopt requirements from the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind (USDB) audit, authorize structural code changes to place the USDB superintendent role under USBE assistant superintendents, and approved new reporting rules for contingency funds allocated to USDB.
The Utah State Board of Education on Wednesday voted to adopt the financial and programmatic requirements identified in the recent audit of the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind and recommended a change to state code to clarify USDB leadership.
The board approved a committee motion that directs USBE to bring USDB financial and programmatic systems under agency oversight and to recommend code language stating that the superintendent shall appoint an assistant superintendent of USBE to function as superintendent of USDB. Chair Wood presented the committee motion; the board approved it unanimously.
The move follows legislation this year that placed USDB financial operations under USBE financial operations. At the meeting Deborah Jacobson, assistant superintendent of operations, reported that the first quarter shows…
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