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Audit presenters give Burke County Public Schools an unmodified opinion, flag fund shortfalls
Summary
Auditors gave Burke County Public Schools an unmodified opinion for the year ended June 30, 2025, and reported a general-fund deficit of $713,175 and a Child Nutrition net loss of about $870,992; the board agreed to place the full audit on the March 2 agenda.
Auditors told the Burke County Board of Education on Feb. 23 that the district’s annual financial statements received an unmodified opinion and that the audit found no compliance exceptions in the federal and state programs tested.
“We gave you an unmodified opinion,” auditor Rick Hammer said as he walked the board through key figures for the year ended June 30, 2025. He reported general-fund cash and investments of about $3.41 million and total general-fund revenues of $20,586,597 against expenditures of about $21.3 million,…
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