District finance staff addressed several consent items in the workshop, explaining a delayed vendor payout for parking‑lot work, a large purchase order for tablet carts and a budget amendment tied to scholarship vouchers.

On vendor payments, staff (Mr. Bush) explained the roughly $900,000 series of payouts to 4 C's Trucking and Excavation related to front‑parking‑lot work at FPC. He said the district withheld a portion of the final payout while the contractor and subcontractors corrected lingering lighting issues; the withheld portion delayed the final payout for about 10 months as contractors worked to resolve factory and installation problems.

On purchase orders, staff answered questions about a Howard Industries order: the procurement covers 150 charging carts that each hold 32 tablets (also described as notebooks), plus sales tax. Staff confirmed the carts include storage and charging functionality; the procurement was presented in the purchase‑orders consent docket.

Finance staff (Miss Womack) also provided context for budget amendments that adjust revenue and expense lines to account for scholarship vouchers and holdbacks reflected in the conference report. She said scholarship vouchers are included in revenue in the initial budget, so removing them requires reducing both revenue and the matching scholarship expense to align financials. She described a large revenue line (approximately $11,000,000 net in one calculation) and an original total near $14,000,000 before netting out discretionary pieces; the net effect was presented as a correction to bring the district’s revenue and expense into alignment.

Why it matters: The items affect district cash flow (vendor payouts), classroom technology provisioning (tablet carts) and the accuracy of year‑end financial statements (scholarship voucher accounting). Board members asked clarifying questions and staff committed to providing corrected statements and follow up where needed.

All items were presented in the finance consent agenda; no formal board votes appear in the workshop transcript.