“The district's financial report that I mentioned, we were able to issue a clean opinion that is defined as an unmodified opinion. It was the opinion you were looking for kind of going into this process, the cleaner clean opinion, not financial statement.”

“The district is... under a model of having inadequate segregation of duties or limited segregation of duties in your business office... the district, if you will, just based on pure observation is determined that that cost is not does not cost does not always the benefits don't always. Um so they're choosing not to.”

“So these reports let me just take a step back. These reports are being submitted to the state of Minnesota state auditor Minnesota Department of Education as well as OM which is office management budget federal government... probably the only factor those first three government agencies they they read it and say yep got it thank you so there's not a lot of change or impact on that particular state but could it could impact your bond rating um from that standpoint as a finding I in my 35 years of doing this have never that's a strong statement ever had somebody come to me and say oh yeah we got rid of that finding and improved It really doesn't impact at all.”

“one of the really important ones is when we start to get into the multi-year projections, we want to have a good base to start from... So every year of course you approve the preliminary budget and those and that's a great word because those numbers are very preliminary. We we have numbers from the state that are in that are not finalized. They change.”

“So revenue is increasing 763,000. So it's a 1.48% increase in revenue. So that's in the right direction. That's where we want to where we want to see that go. U we also had an increase of 444,000 or 08% on expenditures uh from that preliminary budget.”

“So it's kind of a swap so when we're paying this 088% that goes in as a any other tax with like things like that. We're paying point we're paying half that the unions are seemingly siding with half of that as part of the negotiations going forward. Um the there is a sub cost but the thing is when they're being paid by the state we're not paying that portion. So a lot of that subost is actually being wiped out by the state paying that portion of their normal salary.”

“No, we we do have that in. We're going to bring that bus back for the remainder of the year and we'll be budgeting for that for next year as well.”