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Pelham board accepts clean audit for 2024'1: auditors report stronger revenues, manageable debt

Pelham Union Free School District Board of Education · October 9, 2025
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Summary

The Pelham Union Free School District board accepted an unmodified external audit for fiscal year 2024'25, heard that revenues outpaced budget largely because of additional state aid and higher interest income, and approved corrective-action steps on internal controls and extra-classroom funds.

Pelham Union Free School District trustees voted to accept the external audit for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, after auditors from PKF O'Connor Davies reported an unmodified ("clean") opinion and said they found no instances of fraud, illegal acts or disagreements with management.

Melissa Zott, a partner at PKF O'Connor Davies, told the board the district's financial statements "fairly present in all material respects" the district's financial position and that an independent compliance report remains pending federal guidance. "We have issued an unmodified opinion," Zott said, adding that the single-audit compliance report is awaiting a final federal supplement.

Audit manager Viv presented the line-by-line variances: total revenues for 2024'25 came…

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