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Auditors give Santa Rosa County School District a clean opinion; federal programs flagged as properly managed
Summary
External auditors told the Santa Rosa County School Board that the district received a clean audit opinion across financial statements, federal awards and state reporting, with no findings or questioned costs for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024.
The Santa Rosa County School Board heard a presentation May 1 from Alan Jowers of Carr, Riggs & Ingram LLP summarizing the district's annual financial audit and federal awards review for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2024.
Jowers told the board the firm issued a clean opinion on the district's financial statements and found no control or compliance deficiencies. "From a 10,000-foot view, the audit report I would describe as a boring audit report," Jowers said, adding that boring is what officials want from an audit. He told the board the district had no adjusting journal entries and no waived adjustments for the year.
The audit package showed the district received roughly $43 million in federal funding in 2024, Jowers said. The firm tested three federal programs this year'the special education cluster, Impact Aid (Department of Defense) and Child Care and Development Block Grants'and reported no findings or questioned costs. The auditor also submitted required state reporting packages to the Florida Auditor General with no issues.
Jowers noted changes shown in the government-wide balance sheet tied to certificates of participation issued to finance school construction; he said the issuance raised cash balances and long-term debt while construction remained in progress. "You have a strong accounting department, strong finance department," he said, praising the district's finance staff for producing clean statements and for implementing a new finance process in recent years.
Superintendent Dr. Barber and board members thanked the district finance staff for their work. The presentation included references to the district's AFR (Annual Financial Report) and the auditor's federal awards schedule.
The presentation did not produce a district action; the audit was accepted as information during the meeting.
The audit presentation materials identify the audit opinion and federal awards testing results within the district's published audit report; board members were directed to the report pages for long-term debt and federal awards detail.
