The Albuquerque Public Schools Board of Education audit committee on Nov. 13, 2025, approved its meeting agenda and the Oct. 28 minutes and voted unanimously to recess into an executive session to discuss the district’s external audit for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025.

The committee’s chair, Mr. Gonzales, introduced the item and named the presenters: Renette Apodaca, the district’s chief financial officer; Mark Turnbull, CPA, executive director of accounting for Albuquerque Public Schools; and auditors Sheila Quintana Filosa, CPA, and Laura Beltran Schmitz, CPA, with CliftonLarsonAllen. In introducing the purpose of the session, Turnbull said, “I would request that we go ahead and into executive session to discuss the audit.” The chair then asked for a motion to convene the executive session under the Open Meetings Act and the applicable NMAC provision.

Board Member Heather Benavides moved to adopt the Nov. 13 agenda and later moved approval of the Oct. 28 minutes; Josefina Dominguez seconded both motions. Both procedural items passed on recorded roll-call votes in the public meeting.

When the committee considered the audit exit conference, the chair read the legal authority for a closed session, citing the Open Meetings Act (statutory citation given by the committee). The motion to convene an executive session was recorded as moved by Board Member Josefina Dominguez and seconded by Board Member Heather Benavides. A roll-call vote followed; each listed member voted "Yes," and the committee recessed to executive session. The chair announced the meeting would reconvene in open session after the closed meeting and asked that anyone not participating in the executive session leave the public meeting.

Because the committee moved the audit discussion into executive session to address limited personnel matters, the public record from this meeting does not contain substantive audit findings or personnel details discussed in the closed session. The agenda item had been described in the public meeting as the exit conference for Albuquerque Public Schools and the William W. and Josephine Dorn Community Charter School external audits for the fiscal year ending 06/30/2025, excluding federal single-audit programs.

The committee’s next public step, as announced by the chair, is to reconvene following the executive session. Any formal actions or public disclosures arising from the closed session will be reflected in subsequent meeting records if and when the committee chooses to report them.