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District claims auditor reports low error rates after 12‑month review; third‑party payment system complicates arbiter payments
Summary
Claims auditor Leslie Malinowski told the board she reviewed roughly 4,800 claims totaling about $78.5 million over a 12‑month period, found error rates below 1%, and noted a recent shift to a third‑party payment system for sporting officials that limits auditor access to address-level details.
Leslie Malinowski, the district claims auditor, told the Board of Education she completed a 12‑month review of claims and found the district’s financial controls strong and error rates consistently low.
Malinowski said she reviewed more than 4,800 claims covering roughly $78,500,000 dispersed between November and October and reported that error levels remain below 1% in most categories. She credited the district’s business-office staff for maintaining thorough packets and said the low error rate was notable given transaction volume.
She flagged one substantive procedural change: the district began using a third‑party payment system to pay sporting officials, which aggregates payments and limits the auditor’s ability to see address and payment‑detail fields previously available through the business office. Malinowski said the split system — some officials still paid through the business office and others via the third‑party platform — can make locating fee schedules and attendance details “a little clunky” during reviews, and offered to have access to the arbiter system to verify underlying paperwork.
Board members thanked Malinowski for the review. No formal action was taken from the auditor report during the public session, though members noted the change in payment process may require follow‑up to ensure audit access and clarity on fee schedules.
