Friday, May 20, 2016 | 2:10 p.m.
The Clark County School District received more than $5 million from a faulty Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles computer payment system that mistakenly distributed $19 million to government entities statewide.
The School District got the largest share of the erroneous payments, which were allocated over the course of three years starting in April 2013.
The governor’s office has said it won’t ask for the money to be paid back.
“CCSD had been receiving $1.3 million annually in the general fund and over $600,000 in capital funds that it should not have been receiving,” the district said in a statement today.
The district finalized its $2.2 billion budget earlier this week but said it will have to revise it again in December to reflect the loss of the misdirected funds.
In total, school districts around the state received $9 million in erroneous payments.
The payments, caused by a coding error when the department’s myDMV online portal was created in 2013, were identified in March by a programmer working on the system. The error has since been fixed, according to the governor’s office.
But by then, the system had already distributed $19 million in online car registration payments to local governments and school districts around the state.
Funds received by entities in Clark County totaled $11.7 million.
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