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Rye board accepts clean external audit, approves gift, hire and translation contract
Summary
The Rye City School District Board of Education on Oct. 7 accepted an external audit with an unmodified opinion and approved a consent agenda of personnel and fiscal items by a 6–0 vote with one absence.
The Rye City School District Board of Education on Oct. 7 accepted an external audit that received an "unmodified opinion" and approved its consent agenda by a 6–0 vote with one absence.
External auditor Justin Wood of Nugent & Hauser, P.C., told the board the district's financial statements, internal control and extraclassroom activity reports received unmodified ("clean") opinions. "These financial statements consist of 3 reports, most importantly, the report on the general financial statements, which we've given an unmodified opinion," Wood said. He added the district is in a "very strong financial condition," citing increases to reserves.
Wood and staff noted the single-audit report — required when a district has federal funds subject to single-audit rules — was not issued because the federal compliance supplement had not been released. "Due to the delay in the compliance supplement being issued by the federal government, and currently being caused by the government shutdown, we were not able to issue the single audit report for this year," Wood said. The audit team and the New York State Education Department recommended issuing the financial-statement audit now and following up with the single audit once the supplement is available.
Wood cited reserve activity: an increase of $1,167,000 to the capital reserve and an increase of $600,000 to the teacher retirement reserve. He also reported the district adhered to the 4% unassigned fund-balance limit set by New York State.
The board approved the consent agenda — moved by Matt Shimonoff and seconded by Jen Boyle — by voice vote. The board chair announced, "All those in favor? That is 6 to nothing with 1 absence."
Items on the consent agenda included:
- Acceptance of the external audit (with single audit to follow when the federal compliance supplement is released). - Approval of a $5,800 gift from the Milton Parent-Teacher Organization to support Milton School cultural arts programs. - Approval of Dr. Washington as a secondary instructional coach (appointment details in personnel reports). - Approval of an agreement with STAR Interpreting and Translation for translation services for the 2025–26 school year.
Board and staff thanked the finance office and the audit committee for completing the audit process. The board did not take separate roll-call votes naming individual yes/no votes; the affirmation was recorded as 6–0 with one absence.
