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Trustees press for credit-card receipts and audit findings; policy amendment on first reading
Summary
Board members discussed an amended credit-card policy and repeated requests from trustees to return district credit cards and receipts; trustees cited State Board of Accounts audit findings and directed cards and receipts be turned in before the next meeting.
Trustees at the School City of East Chicago work session pressed for immediate compliance with credit-card accounting and said an amended credit-card policy is on the board’s near-term agenda.
Several trustees said the district remains under scrutiny from the State Board of Accounts and that outstanding credit-card receipts were a primary finding. A trustee instructed colleagues to return any district-issued credit cards and all receipts by the coming Monday and said she would ask the chief financial officer to cancel cards for trustees who do not comply. The trustee repeated that the prior policy required board members to sign cards in and out and return receipts and said failure to produce receipts risks repeat audit findings.
Board members and staff clarified that an older credit-card policy existed before recent amendments and that the policy before the board is an amendment returning to first reading. Trustees asked for the actual audit findings; a board member said she had the audit and would email it, while others said they had not received it.
During the discussion trustees also noted that no board member currently has a card assigned and asked the policy committee chair and CFO to resolve outstanding compliance items before the next meeting. The transcript records no formal vote during the work session; the credit-card policy remains at first-reading status with the policy committee scheduled to review further changes.
