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Procedure No.
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6020P
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Adoption Date:
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July 11, 1984
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Revised:
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September 24, 2001
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MANAGEMENT SUPPORT SYSTEM OF
FUNDS AND ACCOUNTS
The following guidelines shall be used in managing bank
accounts:
- The amount of the imprest fund of a school shall be
based on the highest amount of funds expended in one month. The
amount shall be approved by the board of directors.
- The board of directors shall appoint a staff member to serve
as custodian of the fund. A surety bond shall be secured in the
amount of the fund.
- Use of imprest funds and/or petty cash shall be restricted to
those obligations which cannot be handled by voucher.
- Imprest funds and/or petty cash may not be used to circumvent
any laws related to purchasing.
- All receipts which are submitted for reimbursement shall be
dated and signed by the submitter.
- Imprest accounts shall be replenished at least monthly by
warrant of check payable to the custodian. The replenishment must
be made by voucher with appropriate receipts attached.
- Whenever an individual's appointment as custodian is
terminated the imprest fund must be replenished and turned over to
the fiscal officer.
- Local audits of each imprest account by someone other than the
custodian of the account shall be made on a surprise and
unscheduled basis at least twice per year.
Associated Student Body Fund Procedures
The following guidelines shall be in effect in the operation of
the respective associated student bodies:
- The principal shall appoint the primary advisor to
the ASB. He/she shall be responsible for designating advisors to
the various student subgroup organizations affiliated with the
ASB. For schools with no grade higher than grade six, the board
may delegate the authority to a staff member to act as the
associated student body.
- The principal shall be responsible for supervising the
accounting functions to be performed at the building level. The
building-level accounting procedures shall be consistent with the
accounting functions performed at the district office level.
- At the beginning of each year, the ASB shall submit a report
which describes in summary those activities which constitute ASB
programs.
- The ASB shall participate in the determination of the purposes
for which ASB financial resources shall be budgeted and disbursed.
Such purposes shall be reflected in the ASB budget which is
submitted to the board of directors for its approval.
- The ASB shall approve all expenditures before money shall be
disbursed from the fund. In the event that an associated student
body group conducts fund raising or solicits donations for
scholarships, student exchanges and charitable purposes, the
associated student body group shall approve all expenditures of
money so raised.
- ASB funds may be used for purposes consistent with school
district policy and approved by the governing body of the
organization, subject to the provisions incorporated into the
student body constitution and bylaws. Private non-associated
student body fund money held by the district is limited to
scholarships, charitable contributions, and student exchange
programs, and is limited to funds denoted for that specific
purpose that have been so identified at the time of their
collection and have been held in trust exclusively for donative
purposes. Such funds must be contributed and raised on a voluntary
basis. No ASB funds may be contributed to the support or
opposition of a political candidate or ballot measure.
- Fund-raising activities not associated with an ASB-sponsored
organization, including raising private nonassociated student body
funds, are not permitted by law to be done under the direction or
supervision of staff nor with the use of district equipment,
supplies, facilities or other district resources unless the
district is fully reimbursed for all such costs. The principal
shall have the authority to arrange for nonASB funds to be held in
trust in separate accounts in the fund so long as students are
informed in advance that a charge shall be made to cover the full
cost of the service.
- For schools with students in grade seven or above, evidence of
student approval must appear on all vouchers supporting a
disbursement of ASB money. This includes purchase orders and
imprest fund check requests.
- ASB moneys must be on deposit with the county treasurer with
the exception of an imprest banking account and petty cash. Such
funds shall be administered in the manner required by the
regulations of the state board of education.
Management of District Bank Accounts
Moneys received for the district shall be handled as follows:
- Receipts shall be given for all moneys;
- All moneys received by the district, except those received by
the county treasurer on behalf of the district, shall be deposited
in the district's transmittal account. Provisions shall be made
for individual buildings to have access to night depository. In no
cases shall money remain in a building for more than 24
hours;
- Receipts from special events shall be deposited intact;
- All moneys in the transmittal account, shall be transmitted to
the county treasurer no later than the first of each month. Such
transmittals shall be accompanied by a report indicating the sums
to be credited to each of the district's funds;
- An accurate record shall be kept of all expenditures from each
imprest account. Reimbursement to the maximum permitted shall be
made to each imprest account by voucher each month; and
- Local audits of each imprest account shall be made on a
surprise and unscheduled basis at least twice per year. In
addition, whenever there is a change of administrator, the imprest
accounts which he/she administered shall be audited by the
district.