Closer Watch Urged on Student Accounts

Despite some improvement, tighter controls are needed on student body funds at high schools in the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District, according to an annual independent auditors’ report.

The report, recently presented to district trustees, found that student body leaders are often late in depositing checks, and that money is sometimes left unguarded.

Auditors also found negative balances in four campus club accounts monitored by associated student body groups. But the number of overdrawn accounts was down from 12 last year, the report said.

Trustee Craig Olson said problems with student body funds are common and that strict controls will be used to teach students the proper way to handle the accounts.

The district, among other things, will require numbered receipts for transactions and more frequent deposits.