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Board hears clean audit, approves budget amendment and adopts budget calendar

Lenoir County Board of Education · January 6, 2026
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Summary

An external auditor delivered an unmodified (clean) opinion for fiscal year 24–25 and the board approved Budget Amendment No. 2 to incorporate late state allotments and federal grant releases; staff noted a drop in federal funding from $36 million to $23 million and a continuing child nutrition fund shortfall.

The Lenoir County Board of Education received a fiscal-year audit report and approved a budget amendment during its Jan. 5 meeting.

An auditor reporting to the board said the district received an unmodified (clean) opinion and that prior-year findings had been cleared. "We already renewed the audit for the fiscal year ending June 30, '25. The audit was submitted in December," the auditor said, noting the audit was on track for final approval by the Local Government Commission. The auditor also told the board the district had no reportable compliance findings for audited federal…

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