Dearest reader,
Lady B has reached Step 4 of the Chippewa Hills School District ledger. 🪶
Time to open the check register.
For this review, Lady B examined expenditures from 2023–24 and 2024–25 and pulled several vendors and categories worth a closer look.
📋 T2 Professional Services
2023–24: $71,133.65
2024–25: $71,521.78
Two-year total: $142,655.43
The register descriptions include training, audit preparation, audit help, completion of audit-related work, FID submission and other professional services.
🧾 Roslund, Prestage & Co.
2023–24: $28,750.00
2024–25: $50,612.50
Two-year total: $79,362.50
This is the district's independent audit firm.
⚖️ Thrun Law Firm
2023–24: $19,187.40
2024–25: $24,212.45
Two-year total: $43,399.85
📱 Apptegy
2023–24: $16,250.00
2024–25: $25,787.50
Two-year total: $42,037.50
Apptegy provides website, communication and Thrillshare services.
📊 Munetrix
2023–24: $0
2024–25: $6,552.00
Two-year total: $6,552.00
And then there is travel.
✈️ Travel
2023–24: $16,417.78
2024–25: $32,742.94
Two-year total: $49,160.72
That total includes identifiable employee travel reimbursements, conference registrations, hotels and other identifiable travel-related expenditures found in the registers.
Lady B did not simply dump entire mixed credit-card payments into the travel bucket when the underlying register description included unrelated purchases.
For these selected vendors and travel alone:
💰 $363,167.00 over two years.
But one breadcrumb deserves to be tucked away before we close this page of the ledger.
Chippewa Hills paid T2 Professional Services $142,655.43 over these two years for work that included training and audit-related assistance.
Separately, the district paid its independent auditor $79,362.50.
Why does that distinction matter?
Because Step 5 is the audit.
And dear reader...
The auditors had quite a bit to say. 👀
That page of the ledger is next.
With receipts and respect. 🪶
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