Guys in ties settle ETUSD board’s ‘pinks’ dilemma

  • Financial management directors for Kern County Superintendent of Schools Office (KCSOS) appeared at the February 19 special meeting of the El Tejon Unified School District Board of Trustees: (l-r) Steve Mattern, Director of District Financial Services, KCSOS; Dennis Franey, Management Consultant for KCSOS; and John F. Von Flue, Assistant Superintendent of Finance and Accountability for KCSOS. [photo by Patric Hedlund]

    Financial management directors for Kern County Superintendent of Schools Office (KCSOS) appeared at the February 19 special meeting of the El Tejon Unified School District Board of Trustees: (l-r) Steve Mattern, Director of District Financial Services, KCSOS; Dennis Franey, Management Consultant for KCSOS; and John F. Von Flue, Assistant Superintendent of Finance and Accountability for KCSOS. [photo by Patric Hedlund]

Analysis by Patric Hedlund

A small phalanx of financial officers from the Kern County Superintendent of Schools office (KCSOS) were in the front row of the El Tejon Unified School District Board of Trustees’ special meeting on Thursday, Feb. 19.

Just after the flag salute, John Von Flue, Kern County Assistant Superintendent of Schools for Finance and Accountability, stood to speak. He said KCSOS in Bakersfield had been watching this district closely and was concerned when the trustees did not vote at their regular February 12 meeting to give the district the…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Financial management directors for Kern County Superintendent of Schools Office (KCSOS) appeared at the February 19 special meeting of the El Tejon Unified School District Board of Trustees: (l-r) Steve Mattern, Director of District Financial Services, KCSOS; Dennis Franey, Management Consultant for KCSOS; and John F. Von Flue, Assistant Superintendent of Finance and Accountability for KCSOS.

John Von Flue, the Kern County Superintendent of School’s financial accountability specialist, tells ETUSD Trustees (l-r) Barbara Newbold, Misty Johnston, Vickie Mullen, Lark Shillig and John Fleming (not shown) that the district could be taken over by a state financial manager if they fail to issue reduction in force pink slips by March 15.

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