The PGPC has professionals to review and evaluate the management controls required for the District’s Administrative Costs; Food Service Program; Transportation Program; and fiscal year summary accounting data for up to ten similar districts; the District’s fiscal year’s detailed accounting data, contracts, and other District documents; and interviewing some District administrators and staff to determine how similar districts are adjusting their expenditures to maintain a balanced budget.

Based in part on the Auditor Generals’ effect on classroom dollars, as reported in the Auditor General’s March 2003 report, Arizona Public School Districts’ Dollars Spent in the Classroom (Classroom Dollars report), The Professional Group Public Consulting, Inc review will focus on four main aspects of school district operations: administration, food service, student transportation, and plant operation and maintenance.

In addition, The Professional Group Public Consulting, Inc will review the District’s expenditure of desegregation monies to provide an overview of how the District used these monies.

In conducting this review, our firm uses a variety of methods, including examining various records, such as available fiscal year summary accounting data for up to ten similar districts and your District’s fiscal year’s detailed accounting data, contracts, and other district documents; reviewing district policies and procedures; and interviewing some district administrators and staff.