Skip To Main Content

Business Services

About Business Services

The Business Department is committed to maximize the educational experience of all students in the district through sound fiscal management.  The departments mission is to ensure compliance with statutes and auditing standards, provide exceptional customer service, work collaboratively with all departments and administration to provide necessary resources to facilitate teaching and learning.

The essential functions of the department includes district functions of accounting, maintenance, transportation, construction, and food service.  Direct all financial aspects of the district including, budgeting, computing tax rates, auditing, annual financial reporting, insurance programs, elections, facilities, bond programs, and collective bargaining.

Business Services Contacts

  Director of Finance 
     Aracely Soto
     602-629-6460
 
   Federal and State Programs Manager 
     Sharon Estrada
     602-629-6444
 
   Buyer/Payroll
     Amanda Caraveo
     602-629-6464
 
   Grants Specialist  
     Dulce Terrazas
     602-629-6432
 
   Accounts Payable/Receptionist
     Jareth Sanchez
     602-629-6463

Excellence in Financial Reporting

The Balsz School district has been awarded annually since 1995 two Certificates of Excellence in Reporting.  One is from the Association of School Business Officials International (ASBO) and the other is from the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA). The Certificate of Achievement in Excellence in Financial Reporting is a voluntary, nationally recognized program sponsored by ASBO to foster excellence in the preparation and issuance of school financial reports.

 

Association of School Business Officials International Logo

 Learn more on the ASBO website.

 

 

Government Finance Officers Association Logo

Learn more at the GFOA website.