Business & Finance Department

Stephanie Eagen
Assistant Superintendent for Business & Finance
586-797-1200

Jill Tomyn, Budget Director

Jeff Henderson, Director of Purchasing Services & Risk Management

Evelyn Bihl, Controller

Cindie Wals, Auditor and Systems Manager

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. For information on this year’s audit, click here.

District Budget

What Does It Take to Run UCS?

With over 29,000 students, our district is the second largest public school in Michigan. So what does it take to provide our students with the keys to succeed beyond high school?

In the 2008-2009 school year, the operating budget was $266,660,761.00.

• 78.1 percent of the budget is funded through the state.
• 13.8 percent is funded through local means such as residential taxes.
• 4.7 percent is supplied by the federal government.
• 3.4 percent comes from transfers, such as the UCS rainy-day fund.

UCS receives $7,807.00 per pupil in funding from the state. We receive the 15th lowest per pupil allotment in a county of 21 districts.

Read the budget overview for more statistics about our district’s operating budget.