Lax controls over athletics cash transactions at Alabama’s largest community college could open the door for errors, irregularities or fraud, state auditors warn in a newly released report.
The Alabama Department of Examiners of Public Accounts also found Calhoun Community College incorrectly held onto nearly $450,000 in unspent public money earmarked for inmate education -- for 20 months.
Calhoun Community College was unable to document receipts or deposits from over a dozen instances of athletics revenue, including gate admissions and concession sales, between October 2021 and September 2023, according to state auditors in a report issued last week. The lapses put the college out of compliance with accounting policies of the Alabama Community College System, auditors wrote, allowing “an increased risk for the possibility of errors or irregularities, including misappropriations and fraud, to occur.”