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Board holds required public hearing after audit finding on levy approval paperwork
Summary
The Eagle School District board held a public hearing after an audit found the district failed to obtain state approval for how it planned to spend local enrichment levy dollars; the district says the lapse was procedural, levy accounting was clean, and it has filed the plan with OSPI.
The Eagle School District Board of Directors held a required public hearing after the annual audit identified a finding tied to the district’s enrichment levy paperwork. The finding concerned the district’s failure to obtain prior approval from the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) for how local levy dollars would be spent.
The finding matters because state rules require certain filings so OSPI can verify levy dollars are used for allowable local purposes. Krista (Staff member) told the board the audit showed no misappropriation of funds: “they audited all of our levy dollars and found no errors or nothing. It's all clean. It was just 1 filing that didn't happen.” She said the omission was a procedural filing oversight, not misspending.
Krista said the district filed the required plan with OSPI as soon as the omission was discovered and that OSPI approved the filing quickly. “I actually did file the plan with OSPI. I think it took them probably no more than 45 minutes, maybe less, to look at it and approve it,” she said. She added the district will get OSPI approval on future levy spending plans to prevent recurrence and described the finding as “a ding against my performance.”
Board members thanked Krista for bringing the matter forward and for the corrective steps. The hearing was held to satisfy the requirements tied to the audit finding; no additional formal board action on levy accounting was recorded at the meeting.
The district did not assert that any levy dollars were improperly spent and no vote or penalty was recorded in the meeting minutes related to the audit finding. The public record will include the audit finding and the district’s statement and corrective filing with OSPI.
For readers tracking district finances, the board said it will continue internal controls and seek state approval when required to ensure future compliance.
