{"id":18450,"date":"2025-07-18T08:14:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T08:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18450\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T08:14:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T08:14:13","slug":"centerville-schools-audit-finds-retirement-payment-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/18450\/","title":{"rendered":"Centerville schools audit finds retirement payment error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"1\">Centerville City School District\u2019s 2023-2024 salary schedules say that all administrative employees receive 6.5% of the employee portion of pension withholdings picked up and paid by the Board of Education, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/ohioauditor.gov\/auditsearch\/Reports\/2025\/Centerville_CSD_2024_Montgomery_FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Auditor\u2019s Office<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Explore<a class=\"headline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/local\/watching-your-trash-local-city-using-ai-equipped-trucks-to-scan-recycling\/XC5FVQDBSRBLBI52IN7Q4TRL5U\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watching your trash: Local city using AI-equipped trucks to scan recycling<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"3\">The Auditor\u2019s Office accepted Centerville City School District\u2019s financial report for the 2023\u20132024 fiscal year, which was prepared by an independent accounting and auditing firm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"4\">Since the audit met state requirements, no additional review by the Auditor\u2019s Office was needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"5\">On Dec. 13, 2024, the firm advised Centerville\u2019s school board to formally approve any retirement payments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"7\">On Dec. 16, 2024, the school board approved a rule that approved the payment retroactively. <\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"9\">\u201cSince a retroactive resolution was approved for the finding amount, the Finding for Recovery is considered to be repaid under audit,\u201d the Auditor\u2019s Office said in its letter. <\/p>\n<p>Explore<a class=\"headline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/local\/22m-development-to-bring-ranch-homes-community-to-area-near-centerville\/7VTMGQFUPNERHNPUJVGEGHZIGE\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$22M development could bring ranch homes community to growing township<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"11\">Centerville City Schools Treasurer Laura Sauber told this news outlet that no money was repaid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"12\">\u201cIt was the board\u2019s intent, and the superintendent\u2019s recommendation \u2014Dr. Henderson at the time \u2014 to provide the assistant superintendent the full pickup on the pickup benefit,&#8221; Sauber said. \u201cThis is a standard benefit to many administrators throughout the state and has been paid to the assistant superintendent in Centerville for many years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"13\">Sauber said that intent was not documented properly when Tarpey became the assistant superintendent, so the board approved the resolution to retroactively establish the benefit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-text \" data-index=\"14\">\u201cThis resolution satisfied the questions asked by the auditors,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Centerville City School District\u2019s 2023-2024 salary schedules say that all administrative employees receive 6.5% of the employee portion&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[28,147,530],"class_list":["post-18450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}