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Blue Ridge Unified board accepts unmodified audit, approves principal contracts, early graduations and FBLA trip
Summary
At a regular board meeting, Blue Ridge Unified accepted an unmodified FY audit, approved three principal contracts, authorized early graduation for three students, and approved out-of-state FBLA travel and several district agreements; most actions passed unanimously.
Blue Ridge Unified School District No. 32 board members on [date not specified] accepted the district's FY audit and approved multiple personnel and program items, voting unanimously on the measures that required formal action.
The board conducted a roll-call acceptance of the audit after the district's finance lead presented results from the Arizona Auditor General's review. Miss Dung Dale told the board the district's audit was "unmodified," that a prior material finding tied to a Navajo County reconciliation had been corrected, and that the district's USFR findings had fallen ("16 to 14"). During roll call, named members responded in the affirmative, including Michael Grineal, Bridgette, Sylvia Stivens, Margaret Gobby and David Merrill.
The board also approved several consent and action items. The consent agenda items 2.1'2.4 were approved by voice vote after chair invitation; item 2.5 (fundraisers) was taken out of consent and approved separately. The board approved recommendations to grant early graduation to three high school students after the principal said two of the students were present and staff supported the requests. The board unanimously approved out-of-state travel for three FBLA students to the national competition in Anaheim, California (June 28'July 3), following a presentation by the FBLA advisor recounting state competition results.
The board approved three principal contracts presented by administration: a new elementary principal (Kyla Butler), a junior-high principal (Dr. Chris Johnson) and the high school principal (Ryan Grace). Administration also sought and received board approval for annual partnerships: a memorandum of understanding with United Way of Northern Arizona for Kinder Camp and an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) for dual-enrollment and Talon courses for 2025'26, which the district said allows students to earn college credit without leaving campus.
Board discussion around the financial presentation included staff explanation of a 2024 chart-of-accounts change that reclassified types of teacher pay (stipends, coaching, curriculum work) into separate codes; staff said this change complicates year-to-year comparisons but does not change underlying spending. Miss Dale also described a clerical transportation-reporting error that was corrected with the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) but remains visible in the Auditor General's published report because those reports are not retroactively altered.
No votes recorded a negative or abstention in the meeting transcript; several items were described as unanimous by the chair. The board scheduled its next regular meeting for Tuesday, May 6.
The board's actions in this meeting include formal acceptance of the district audit (roll-call) and approvals of personnel contracts, student early graduations, district memoranda/IGA and student travel; all were presented as operational items necessary for district administration.
