Business & Finance Department
Stephanie Eagen
Assistant Superintendent for Business and Employee Services
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Jill Tomyn, Executive Director of Business and Finance
Jeff Henderson, Director of Purchasing Services & Risk Management
Evelyn Bihl, Controller
Cynthia Wals, Director of Employee Benefits and Reporting
Susan Boyne, Director of Food Services
The UCS Department of Business and Finance is responsible for investments, overall cash management of district funds and budgets. Each year, the department creates an annual operating budget and presents it to the Board of Education for approval each June. Amendments are made in February and finalized the following June.
Business and Finance also has departmental supervision of Accounting, Budget & Finance, Food Service, Internal Audit, Payroll, Print Shop, Purchasing, and Transportation.
District Budget and Legislative Updates
Below please find links on updated information on the UCS fiscal budget and recent legislative news.
UCS Budget Updates
- Annual audit reports UCS expenditures drop through continued cost-cutting efforts
- New agreement is part of $25 million in savings from recent UCS contracts
- June 13 Budget Adoption Slides
- Complete list of budget reductions
- May 23 Financial Update
- UCS issues layoff notices, reduces central office and building-level administrative and support positions
- UCS Board approves more than $9 million in budget reductions
- April 25 Financial Update
- Senate Testimony on changing the funding forumla for kindergarten
- Board of Education resolution on state budget cuts
- List of previous budget reductions
- March, 2011 budget reductions
- March, 2011 presentation on Governor's budget impact on UCS
- A letter from Dr. Johns regarding the 2011-2012 Budget
- Federal grant to save UCS taxpayers more than $10 million over 15 years (January 13, 2011)
- Audit shows UCS continues to meet high standards for financial management (November 15)
- Bond refunding saves UCS taxpayers more than one million dollars in interest costs (October 31)
More Information
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