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EPISD audit office reports 2024-25 results, highlights attendance and maintenance gaps
Summary
El Paso ISD's chief internal auditor told the audit committee the department completed 20 of 23 planned engagements in 2024-25, closed eight corrective-action plans with 98% of activities implemented and flagged attendance, maintenance and special-education compliance issues for follow-up.
Myra Martinez, El Paso ISD's chief internal auditor, told the audit committee on a Friday evening that the internal audit office completed 20 of the 23 engagements in its 2024-25 audit plan and that the department's work conforms to the Institute of Internal Auditors' standards.
"We completed 20 of the 23 engagements that were in our audit plan," Martinez said, adding the three remaining engagements were in planning, field work or reporting and have been rolled into the 2025-26 plan. Martinez said the original plan was approved April 16, 2024, and trustees approved adjustments in February 2025 that increased projects from about 18 to 23.
Martinez emphasized the office's independence and oversight role to the trustees, saying, "internal audit did not have any impairments to independence during the 2425 fiscal year," and described annual conflict-of-interest disclosures and a prohibition on accepting gifts that could affect objectivity.
The office reported eight corrective-action plans (CAPs) with 86 activities monitored and closed; Martinez said 98% of those activities were implemented. She told trustees that audit work is posted on the district's internal audit web page and that engagement types include financial, compliance, operational and IT audits as well as advisory work.
Audit highlights presented to the committee included attendance and truancy audits at seven high schools, an operational maintenance audit and a special-education discipline audit. Martinez said 18 of the 20 completed engagements (90%) aligned with the district's strategic blueprint.
On the district's fraud, waste and abuse hotline, Martinez reported 84 submissions for the year, 17 of which were duplicates (67 unique), covering 40 locations and 82% anonymous. She said two pending reports were closed after the presentation and that five reports were substantiated; "none of those were fraud related," she said.
The audit committee chair thanked the internal audit team for its objectivity and work. The meeting adjourned at 6:22 p.m.
