I am in receipt of the results of the 2000-2001 General State Aid Claim audit conducted by ISBE auditor Brent Appell over the past few days.

The audit shows a negative adjustment of $4,696.80 for General State Aid and a negative adjustment of $121.37 for School Safety and Educational Improvement Block Grant, for a total of $4,818.17. The GSA adjustments are due to enrollment counting errors when students are either dropped and kept on the books or transferred to other schools within the District and double counted. I will be notifying principals to remind them to watch monthly add/drops to ensure the students are actually dropped from attendance records. Also, building principals need to notify the administration when non-resident students attend so they will be given the proper non-claimable attendance code.

The impact to the District will occur when the District receives the GSA allocation in fiscal year 2003.

Matt Wilkinson
Business Manager