Purchases by staff using their personal funds may be reimbursed through check requests. District staff must submit an expense report for these purchases. Exhibit 8-4 shows the district's top ten vendors. These vendors provide a wide variety of goods and services, including health insurance, electricity, computer software and equipment, and construction services. Expenditures for these programs are provided in Exhibit 8-5 .
Span of control is the number of employees supervised by a manager.
Narrow spans of control typically indicate unnecessary layers of management. Responsible for assisting the director of Purchasing and Distribution in the procurement of equipment, supplies, materials, and services in accordance with established Board Policy and Administrative Regulations. May have direct supervisory responsibility for purchasing, warehouse services, and book processing. Director Supervisor, Book Processing Assists in directing and coordinating the daily activities in the Book Processing section of the warehouse services operations. Two major activities involve supplying the school district with an adequate supply of textbooks provided through the state textbook adoption process and processing locally purchased library book orders.