St. Joseph School District Board of Education meets Friday
The St. Joseph School Board of Education met Friday afternoon to review a number of items stemming from the results of Tuesday’s audit findings.
In attendance were Board President Brad Haggard, Vice President Martin Rucker and board members Dennis Snethen, Chris Danford, Lori Prussman and Kappy Hodges. Dan Colgan was absent.
The first item on Friday’s agenda, the issue of finding another Purchasing Card Service Provide after receiving notification Thursday of the pending termination of the district’s commercial card agreement between Commerce Bank and the district.
According to the St. Joseph School District, Commerce Bank gave the following reasons for cancellation: “1) Current Year Deficit Budget, 2)Loss of $.63 levy, further exacerbating our deficit budget for the 15/16 School year, 3)Ongoing FBI Investigation, 4) General turmoil at the SJSD.”
“I feel like we’re going to have other banks wanting to offer that service to us,” said Beau Musser. “I don’t necessarily have concerns about having to do a new credit card program. The concern is that a local bank has decided they don’t want to do business with us because of our current financial condition.”
Musser said the district has issued requests for a new purchasing card system and expects responses due back next Friday.
The board also discussed salary schedules for the 2015-16 school year and the audit report findings.
Haggard said the board is going to work hard to resolve the audit findings and make those steps available for the public to have access to.
“People can see the recommendations, they can see progress on it,” said Haggard. “From here forward, everyone of our committee meetings, everyone of our board meetings we’re going to talk about updating progress on the audit findings.”
Haggard said all of that information will be made available online on the St. Joseph School District’s website for the public to access.