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Orangeburg County School Board reviews clean audit, approves budget calendar and one-time spending including retention bonuses
Summary
Trustees received an unmodified audit showing no material weaknesses and approved the 2025–26 budget calendar and a one-time budget package that includes $2.3 million in retention bonuses; board discussed fund-balance use and scheduled further budget work sessions.
The Orangeburg County School District Board of Trustees received an unmodified (clean) audit for fiscal year 2024 and approved the district's 2025'026 budget calendar and a one-time budget request at its Dec. 10, 2024 meeting.
Brian Nicholson, the engagement director for Mahlodin Jenkins, told the board the firm issued a clean opinion on the district's financial statements and reported no material weaknesses, significant deficiencies or instances of noncompliance in the audit or the single-audit testing of federal funds. "We did issue an unmodified or a clean opinion on the basis of financial statements," Nicholson said, adding the audit provided…
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