Audit reveals RBUSD meal count problems
A state audit has revealed missing records from the Redondo Unified School District food services and has resulted in the withholding of state and federal funds from the district’s reduced and free lunch program, pending corrective action. Officials from the California Department of Education’s nutrition services division made two unannounced inspections of RBUSD campuses – one last June and another in September – after receiving an anonymous complaint about the potential misappropriation of funds. Their subsequent audit showed that the district did not have the documentation required for all the students receiving free and reduced meals. “We found some significant concerns about the integrity of their meal claims,” said Phyllis Bramson-Paul, the Department of Education’s director of nutrition services. RBUSD Chief Business Official Janet Redella said that the paperwork was not kept under lock and key and some documentation disappeared. “We fed those kids as free and reduced kids,” Redella said. “The kids are there – the paperwork is not. Some of those applications are missing, and we did not secure those applications like we should have. There are a lot of details for filing for…
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