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Pacific Grove USD audit finds clean opinion but flags lost instructional minutes and data errors
Summary
Auditors delivered an unmodified opinion on Pacific Grove Unified School District’s FY2023–24 financial statements but the board heard findings including a $140,000 state penalty tied to missing high-school instructional minutes, errors in unduplicated pupil counts and ADA documentation, and follow-up steps to fix controls.
The Pacific Grove Unified School District received an unmodified (clean) auditor’s opinion for its FY2023–24 financial statements, but auditors and district staff told the Board of Education that state compliance findings will reduce state apportionment and require internal changes.
An audit presentation by Ryan Zelensky, senior manager at Ibailey, said the district’s financial statements were clean but that several state compliance findings were reported. The largest single fiscal result was a penalty tied to insufficient documented instructional minutes at Pacific Grove High School; auditors calculated a related funding reduction of about $140,000.
The nut graf: While an unmodified opinion signals the district’s financial statements are reliable, board members focused on preventable operational problems that caused the state findings and the steps staff said they are taking to stop repeated errors.
Auditor highlights and board reaction
Zelensky said auditors issued a standard unmodified opinion on the main…
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