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Utah State Board of Education adds four audits to plan; member presses for conference, travel review
Summary
The Utah State Board of Education voted to add four audits to the end of its current audit plan — credit recovery; USBE conferences, memberships and travel; and USBE work time and leave analysis — after members discussed a data request and whether the audit would restrict staff travel.
The Utah State Board of Education voted to add four audits to the end of its current audit plan during its consideration of agenda item 3.
Audit Committee Chair Katy Hall moved that the board prioritize, in the order presented, audits of credit recovery; USBE conferences, memberships and travel; and USBE work time and leave analysis. The board voted 14 in favor and 1 opposed; the dissent came from Member Davis.
The motion followed backup materials provided with the prioritization request. Chair Hall said the credit recovery audit was submitted by Member Bollinger and that the other audits were submitted by Member Boggess.
Member Jennifer Boggess described a prior robust data request she had submitted after finding data points that did not reconcile. "I submitted a robust data request about some things that didn't reconcile in my brain," Boggess said, adding that the data would help explain both the dollars spent and staff time devoted to conferences, memberships and related travel.
Member Carey asked whether anything in the prioritization request would prohibit or restrict staff from attending conferences, memberships or travel while an audit is pending. Debbie Davis, the board's chief audit executive, replied, "There is nothing in the prioritization request that would restrict any memberships, conferences, or travel. That would be at the discretion of the superintendent if we wanted to go that direction, but there's nothing in the audit request."
With that clarification, the moderator restated the motion, called the vote and announced the result. The audits will be added to the end of the board's current audit plan; no secondary motion or amendment was recorded.
Next steps: the audits will be scheduled and scoped by the board's audit office in coordination with staff; the record shows the board approved prioritization but did not impose operational restrictions on travel or memberships as part of the audit action.
