County Board of Ed County Board of Education · Thursday, October 15, 2026, 5:30 PM · Item 10.2 · REPORTS, DISCUSSIONS, AND PRESENTATIONS
Board reviews 2025-26 year-end unaudited financial statement
In plain English
County Office of Education staff will present the 2025-2026 Unaudited Actuals Financial Statement, which is the year-end accounting of what the agency actually took in and spent, filed with the California Department of Education. Deputy Superintendent of Business Services Stephanie Gomez and Director of Fiscal Services Melissa Lopez will walk the County Board of Education through the numbers. The item is listed as information, and the recommendation is simply to receive the presentation rather than approve anything.
The unaudited actuals are the closing picture of how the County Office of Education's money was used in the 2025-2026 school year, which is the baseline the Board and the state use when reviewing the agency's finances.
Key facts
- Board meeting date: October 15, 2026; agenda item #10.2.
- Marked as 'Information' rather than 'Action'; the staff recommendation is to 'Receive the presentation.'
- The report is the annual closing financial reporting document filed with the California Department of Education.
- Presented by Stephanie Gomez, Deputy Superintendent, Business Services, and Melissa Lopez, Director, Fiscal Services, Business Services.
- Supporting materials include the SACS (Standardized Account Code Structure) unaudited actuals report and a board presentation.
Reasons to support
- Filing and reviewing the annual closing financial statement with the California Department of Education is a required part of the yearly reporting cycle.
- Presenting the year-end figures in an open Board meeting puts the agency's actual revenues and spending for 2025-2026 on the public record before the audit.
Reasons to oppose or change it
- The figures are unaudited, so the totals presented could change once an independent audit is completed.
- Because the item is listed for information only, the Board takes no vote and makes no budget changes at this meeting; any adjustments would have to come through a separate action item.
Make your voice heard
Pick a side and we'll draft a short email to public-comment@santacruzcoe.org that you can edit and send from your own account. Emails to the body become part of the public record.
How to take part
Show up: Thursday, October 15, 2026 at 5:30 PM. California's open-meetings law (the Brown Act) gives you the right to speak on agenda items. Remote-participation links, when offered, are on the agenda.
Write in: public-comment@santacruzcoe.org (from the address this meeting's agenda gives for public comment)
Official wording
2025-2026 Unaudited Actuals Financial Statement 1.10.2 - CVR 2025-2026 Unaudited Actuals Financial Statement.pdf 2.2025-26 SACS Unaudited Actuals for Board.pdf 3.2025-26 Unaudited Actuals Board Presentation FINAL.pdf The Board is requested to review information from the annual closing financial reporting document filed with the California Department of Education. Presenter(s): Stephanie Gomez, Deputy Superintendent, Business Services Melissa Lopez, Director, Fiscal Services, Business Services
Summary written by claude-opus-5 from the agenda and the 10.2 - CVR 2025-2026 Unaudited Actuals Financial Statement.pdf. It can contain mistakes. The official documents govern.