Burleson ISD delays audit amid OMB guidance pause; board reviews September finances

Burleson Independent School District finance staff informed trustees on Nov. 10 that the district must postpone presenting its annual audit because the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has not issued needed federal guidance.

"The bad news is normally, I would be presenting the audit tonight, but the OMB is shut down, so we're going to have to postpone," said Brenda (finance staff). She added that the Texas Education Agency (TEA) has granted an extension while federal guidance remains pending.

While the audit is on hold, staff reviewed September financial statements. The district reported general fund state program revenue of about $19.4 million and general fund expenditures near $18.6 million. Food-service revenue was reported around $1.4 million with food-service expenditures near $925,000. Staff noted debt-service revenue near $111,000 and reported a significant payment of $13,000,000 earlier in the accounting period that affected capital and debt-service activity.

Trustees asked clarifying questions; finance staff said the district will present the completed audit once OMB issues the federal guidance necessary to finalize the federal portion of the audit and TEA allows completion. The board received the financial report as information and did not take separate formal action on the audit postponement at the Nov. 10 meeting.

Note on transcript figures: some numeric values were reported in the meeting but certain items (for example a line read as "our expenditures at $1.44" in the transcript) lacked clear units or were garbled in the record; the article reports only the amounts that were clearly stated or interpretable in context and flags ambiguous notations as not specified.