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Audit shows Pine Island school district doing well
Mon, Dec 10th, 2012
Posted in Pine Island Education
Posted in Pine Island Education
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Results of a recent audit of the Pine Island School District put smiles on the faces of school board members.
Kim Hillberg of accounting firm CliftonLarsonAllen discussed the audit at the board’s Dec. 6 meeting. Regarding the final figures as of June 30, 2012, and the estimated amounts after that date, she told the board, “You’re in good shape.
“Your general fund is healthy. Fund balance is particularly important in this economy, and you are in a position to weather it better than others.”
The school is doing an effective job getting dollars to the classroom, she said, and by having its own bus fleet, is practicing thrift. “Districts that own their buses rather than contracting the service save money.”
The audit, Hillberg said, “shows really good financial planning.”
Audit results are posted at http://www.pineisland.k12.mn.us/district/DisAud%202011-12.htm.
Big Apple bound
“You’re on your way to New York,” Pine Island School Board Chairman Jeff Leland told high school choir director Doug Strandell after the board authorized, 7-0, a music department request to take a trip.
Tenth-, 11th- and 12th-grade members of the choir, band and orchestra, their music instructors and plenty of chaperones will make the April 2014 journey. The music department schedules one trip every three years, giving music students in every grade an opportunity to take part.
From among destination cities of New York, Boston or Washington, D.C., the high school musicians voted overwhelming for the Big Apple.
District to go on Facebook
Superintendent Tammy Berg-Beniak suggested the school join Facebook; Technology Director Taylor Bauman agreed, saying he’d heard similar recommendations from community members.
Board members likewise concurred and asked Berg-Beniak to prepare a Facebook policy draft for consideration at the next meeting.
Other business
•Board members voted 7-0 to hire James Rew as second-shift custodian.
•Lunch period career information sessions – “biology brown bag career awareness presentations” – have, to date, covered the professions of genetic counselor, physical therapist and nurse anesthetist, reported student representative Courtney O’Reilly.
•John Champa, a school board member who serves on the Community Planning Team told the board that the team had appointed a subcommittee “to check other towns to see how schools affect growth.” You’ll find notes on the team’s Nov. 14 meeting at http://cc.pineislandmn.com/downloads/111412_cpt_meeting_notes.pdf.
The Pine Island School Board will hold its next meeting at 6 p.m. Dec. 17 in the district conference room.
Kim Hillberg of accounting firm CliftonLarsonAllen discussed the audit at the board’s Dec. 6 meeting. Regarding the final figures as of June 30, 2012, and the estimated amounts after that date, she told the board, “You’re in good shape.
“Your general fund is healthy. Fund balance is particularly important in this economy, and you are in a position to weather it better than others.”
The school is doing an effective job getting dollars to the classroom, she said, and by having its own bus fleet, is practicing thrift. “Districts that own their buses rather than contracting the service save money.”
The audit, Hillberg said, “shows really good financial planning.”
Audit results are posted at http://www.pineisland.k12.mn.us/district/DisAud%202011-12.htm.
Big Apple bound
“You’re on your way to New York,” Pine Island School Board Chairman Jeff Leland told high school choir director Doug Strandell after the board authorized, 7-0, a music department request to take a trip.
Tenth-, 11th- and 12th-grade members of the choir, band and orchestra, their music instructors and plenty of chaperones will make the April 2014 journey. The music department schedules one trip every three years, giving music students in every grade an opportunity to take part.
From among destination cities of New York, Boston or Washington, D.C., the high school musicians voted overwhelming for the Big Apple.
District to go on Facebook
Superintendent Tammy Berg-Beniak suggested the school join Facebook; Technology Director Taylor Bauman agreed, saying he’d heard similar recommendations from community members.
Board members likewise concurred and asked Berg-Beniak to prepare a Facebook policy draft for consideration at the next meeting.
Other business
•Board members voted 7-0 to hire James Rew as second-shift custodian.
•Lunch period career information sessions – “biology brown bag career awareness presentations” – have, to date, covered the professions of genetic counselor, physical therapist and nurse anesthetist, reported student representative Courtney O’Reilly.
•John Champa, a school board member who serves on the Community Planning Team told the board that the team had appointed a subcommittee “to check other towns to see how schools affect growth.” You’ll find notes on the team’s Nov. 14 meeting at http://cc.pineislandmn.com/downloads/111412_cpt_meeting_notes.pdf.
The Pine Island School Board will hold its next meeting at 6 p.m. Dec. 17 in the district conference room.
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