St. Mary Parish board reviews proposed amendment to 2024–25 federal programs budget

St. Mary Parish School Board members spent significant time discussing a proposed amendment to the district's 2024'25 federal programs budget that staff said would raise the variable federal programs total to about $20.8 million.

Miss Poisson, a district staff member, told the board: "So what we're proposing is to have a revised final variable federal programs budget of the 20,800,000.0." She said the district received preliminary federal allocations of $14,251,000 in June and later received carryover and final allocations that together add roughly $6.6 million to those preliminary funds.

The amendment matters because it brings the district's internal accounting records into alignment with federal grant records and addresses an auditor finding from the 2023'34 audit, staff said. "Our auditors advised that simply adjusting the electronic federal programs, grants, and eGMS is just not sufficient," Miss Poisson said, adding that the Local…