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Board accepts audit and grants authority to implement LeanFrog transportation recommendations; superintendent reports increased breakfasts and $1.5M in grants
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Summary
The board accepted the audit of the district’s 2024–25 financial statements, accepted findings of a LeanFrog transportation review and authorized implementation of its recommendations; Superintendent Purvis reported expanded nontraditional breakfast service, roughly 137,000 additional breakfasts served (Aug–Feb) and about $1.5 million in additional grant revenue since January 2024.
The Livingston Parish School Board accepted the report on the audit of its general purpose financial statements for the year ending June 30, 2025, and voted to accept and implement findings from a LeanFrog Business Solutions transportation review.
During the Budget & Goals Committee report, the committee recorded that Tiffany Dorsa of EisnerAmper LLP summarized the audit and answered committee questions; the committee moved and unanimously approved presenting the audit report to the full board for acceptance. The committee also heard LeanFrog’s transportation review from Byron Hedrick and voted to accept the findings and to grant authority to implement recommendations as applicable.
On the public floor, a board member with prior experience in transportation said the recommended reconfiguration of an existing position (transferring duties from the mechanic shop to transportation) is intended to improve routing efficiency. The chair clarified that the change is a reconfiguration of existing staff duties rather than the creation of a new central-office position and that the reorganization will not increase district payroll expenses.
Superintendent Purvis provided an update on the district’s progress implementing LeanFrog recommendations from 2024. He said nontraditional breakfast service has been expanded to 32 of the district’s 42 schools and that the six most recently added schools showed notable growth in breakfast participation; he reported approximately 137,000 additional breakfast meals served between August and February compared with the prior school year. Purvis also said the district has secured roughly $1.5 million in additional grant revenue since January 2024, exceeding the target range cited in LeanFrog’s recommendations.
The board voted to present committee actions to the full board for approval; each committee action noted in the report was approved without opposition. A separate athletics medical staff committee report approved redesign grants for targeted instructional support and a district attendance position, and those committee approvals were also presented to and accepted by the full board.
The board later moved into executive session to discuss confidential student information pursuant to LSA-R.S. 42:17.7; no executive-session details were discussed publicly.
