2026-09-29 Board of Education Special Meeting

The PPS Board of Education held a special meeting on September 29, 2026, to approve responses to recommendations in the draft bond performance audit for fiscal years 2024–25 and 2025–26. The board considered and voted on individual responses, with several amended. It noted that the external bond auditor’s RFP had been issued over the summer, had closed, and the work had reportedly already been awarded; no vendor name or contract amount was stated. Presidio was discussed in connection with monthly bond-management invoices, but no new award to Presidio was made at this meeting.

The most direct spending action was approval, by a 4–3 vote, of a response directing the Office of Internal Performance Audit to begin the process of hiring an additional auditor with capital-delivery and bond-program audit expertise, paid for with bond funds; June 2027 was set as a target implementation date. The board also approved, 7–0, a related response on assurance over cost-reduction methodology for Presidio invoices after removing language that made implementation dependent on budget availability. Members discussed estimates of nearly $2 million for an auditor over the life of the bond, but no specific hiring amount was approved. Other approved responses addressed ongoing audit follow-up, board oversight practices, and training. The board emphasized that the final audit report would be public on October 6 and presented on October 20.