Pacific Beach Middle School has vulnerable cash

The San Diego Unified School District has had plenty of troubles lately, climaxed by the resignation last week of boardmember Marne Foster following her guilty plea to a state political reform act charge after a district attorney investigation into a multitude of transgressions. Now district auditors have accused Pacific Beach Middle School in an emergency “flash” report of having a dangerously vulnerable cash hoard.

“Pacific Beach was unable to obtain the necessary reasonable assurances that all cash receipts were adequately receipted, accounted for, and safeguarded,” says an audit issued in late December and recently posted online. “Additionally, while the [Associated Student Body’s] Fund’s inventory of PE uniforms and clothes were maintained in a secured room, Pacific Beach could not provide us with a reasonable assurance that only authorized individuals had access to the inventory.”