Spring ISD selects CG Strategies LLC for efficiency audit amid trustee requests for vendor background

The Spring Independent School District Board of Trustees approved CG Strategies LLC on June 23 to conduct the district’s independent efficiency audit, a requirement cited under Texas Education Code 11.184 and Legislative Budget Board guidelines.

Interim CFO Rhonda Johnson described the audit’s scope — staffing ratios, program-level expenditures, revenue composition and general-fund trends — and said the firm’s proposal was approximately $10,000. Trustees asked how CG Strategies was chosen and pressed administration to provide clearer vendor background materials and an exact contract in the board packet. "When I tried to Google it, there are lots of CG companies. I couldn't tell who it was," a trustee said during the motion discussion.

Administration said the vendor was recommended by the district’s new financial advisor and had experience with multiple Texas districts. Johnson told trustees the auditor must be selected by July 1 to allow audit work to begin in July and to have results available prior to the district’s August meeting in advance of any voter-approved tax-rate election.

Trustees approved the motion to retain the vendor, and administration committed to providing more detailed background information and final contract terms shortly; the board requested the materials be included in an upcoming board report.

The motion was made by Trustee New House and seconded by Trustee Adams; the motion passed on a roll call vote. The board asked that administration return with vendor credentials and clarified entity name before final contracting.