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Resident urges clearer financial dashboards and stronger school-bus safety outreach
Summary
David Van Gorder urged the school board to create financial dashboards and KPIs to make district finances easier to understand, raised concern about two school-bus arm violations in the first three days of school and criticized a proposed $75,000 branding expense.
At the Huntington County Community School Corporation meeting, public commenter David Van Gorder told the board the district’s financial reports “are very boring and … need context,” and urged the creation of financial dashboards or key performance indicators to present enrollment trends, spending priorities and other digestible metrics for the public.
Van Gorder offered specific recommendations:…
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