ELDRED CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, NY — An audit from the New York State Comptroller's Office, announced June 5, found that district officials in the Eldred Central School District did not properly manage and monitor building access accounts and devices (i.e., badges) and issued four recommendations to help district officials improve that management and moitoring. 

Specifically, according to the comptroller's office, the district had active, but unneeded, accounts with assigned badges in the system:

• 41 district employees had two or more active badges, including four employees who were assigned as many as four active badges. One of these employees, the Superintendent, was assigned seven active badges at the time of the office's fieldwork in December 2025. 
• Seven non-employee badges including five shared badges that were not tracked or disabled when no longer needed and two active badges assigned without a business need to a Board of Education member and a retired bus driver. 
• District officials could not locate 14 active badges, including 13 duplicate employee badges and one shared badge. 

Although district officials had a process for adding accounts in the system for employees and non-employees, no one periodically reviewed active accounts to determine whether they were needed, according to the comptroller's office. The office added that district officials did not clearly assign responsibility for managing and monitoring accounts or develop written policies and procedures for issuing and monitoring badges. 

The office issued four recommendations that, if implemented, will help district officials improve management and monitoring of building access accounts and badges. District officials generally agreed with their recommendations, and included a response in the appendixes of the report.