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Tangipahoa business services outlines budget operations, wins audit awards; sales tax receipts rise
Summary
The district’s business services director described payroll, accounts-payable and grant processes, announced ASBO and GFOA audit awards for the district’s audit report, and board staff reported modest monthly sales-tax increases.
Deborah Anderson, director of business services for Tangipahoa Parish School System, told the board the department processes payroll for 3,108 full-time employees plus more than 200 substitutes and temporaries and manages purchasing, accounts payable and risk management for the district.
Anderson said purchasing and accounts-payable process more than $20,000,000 in monthly AP checks, and business services coordinates school finance clerks, grant accounting and monthly reimbursements. "The funding that we receive, whether through local, state, and or federal funding, is imperative to our district," Anderson said. She told the board the district received more than $29,000,000 in grant funding (separate from sales tax/local funds) in the past year.
Anderson announced Tangipahoa Parish School System received certificates of excellence in financial reporting from both the Association of School Business Officials (ASBO) and the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) for the audit year 2024. She presented the district’s comprehensive annual financial report and noted the audit is posted on the district website and submitted to the Louisiana Legislative Auditor.
Separately, the board heard a sales-tax summary from district staff: the EFID tax was up 3% for the most recent month and was running a little less than 8% for the year; the 2-cent local sales tax showed about 5.5% growth compared with the prior period. The presenter said the increases do not directly create new one-time stipend money beyond maintaining existing stipend commitments.
Board members thanked business services staff for the behind-the-scenes work the department performs to support payroll, procurement and grants processing.
No board action was taken on the audit awards or the sales-tax report; Anderson presented the annual audit materials and the board congratulated her team.
