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Bemidji board approves clean audit, certifies levy, ratifies $21.8M bond refunding and awards LED retrofit bid
Summary
The Bemidji School Board accepted an unmodified audit opinion, certified a $11,405,977 levy limit, ratified $21,825,000 in school building refunding bonds projected to save about $1.38 million, and awarded an $817,700 LED retrofit bid; motions to start reductions review and to rescind a duplicative policy also passed.
The Bemidji School Board on Monday approved the district's fiscal-year 2025 annual audit, certified the 2025 levy limit, ratified a refunding of school building bonds and approved an LED retrofit bid for Bemidji Middle School.
Audit and findings: Amanda Skansen, signing shareholder for Brady Martins & Associates, told the board auditors issued an unmodified (clean) opinion on the financial statements. Auditors flagged two notable matters: a repeated internal-control issue involving journal entries and a single-audit finding over federal program eligibility for the child nutrition cluster. The auditors said two students were listed incorrectly in district software and one student's supporting documentation could not be located; the finding was characterized as a significant deficiency. The district has created corrective-action plans and added procedures to mitigate future…
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