Vicksburg Warren board presses staff on rising expenditures, approves financial report and claims docket

At a Vicksburg Warren School District Board of Trustees meeting, board members raised concerns about rising expenditures and outstanding reconciliations and then voted to approve the district financial report and the March claims docket. Board member Miss Patterson pressed staff for clarity after reviewing the cash-flow and expenditures reports and a separate claims ledger.

The board’s concern focused on a roughly “a million dollars” increase in accounts payable compared with the previous month and on claims that appeared higher than the budgeted amount for March. Miss Patterson asked, “So my question is, based on where we are and what we're doing, what action are we taking to reign in expenditures? Because we only…