An independent auditor for the Lafayette Parish School System listed 77 findings after testing the district’s financial internal controls and compliance, 31 of which it said were material weaknesses.
Kolder, Slaven and Co., which was hired and paid by LPSS to conduct the district’s 2024-2025 audit, also said in its report that it was “unable to obtain sufficient appropriate evidence to provide a basis for an audit opinion” because of “concerns about the reliability of the accounting records and financial reporting provided by management.”
The district objected to virtually all of the findings. In most cases, the district argued that a finding was not from the 2024-2025 audit period. In at least three instances, LPSS’s response to a finding included that the district felt it had been included to cast LPSS in an “unfavorable light” and twice argued that the finding highlighted the auditor’s “apparent lack of objectivity.”…