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by our procurement community. I have
served with a group of very dedicated school
Michelle Hamilton, Gary Barkman, Ken Carter, Lari Staples,
Lila McCleery, Claudia, Kevin Startt, Anita McLemore and procurement offi cials who have volunteered
Claudia Leon. countless hours over the past two-plus years
Along with representatives from the State Board of to make various revisions and tweaks to the
Education, the Auditor General and the Attorney General, these
procurement folks have helped to shape the future landscape of procurement rules that are designed to make
school district procurement for this year and beyond. If you get our procurement lives a little easier.
a moment and see any of these folks in your travels, please take
the time to thank them for the work they put in improving our also give some great best practice recommendations to make
rules for everyone. I am proud that I continue to be associated all your procurement dreams come true.
with each and every one of them. Stay tuned, I look forward to these procurement rules
As I have mentioned, the State Board of Education at the changes that will help all of us.
time of the writing of this article is still in the approval process.
Among these changes will be some proposed clari cations Bill Munch, CPPO, CPPB is the Procurement Compliance and
to the exemptions and some appropriate and much-needed Training Of cer for Valley Schools Management Group, recipient
additional exemptions. Once approved by the State Board of of the 2018 AASBO Bill Lovett Award and the 2016 NIGP National
Education, I will author an article in e Edge to review ALL the Purchasing Manager of the Year. He provides consultation on
procurement exemptions. at review will include all current public procurement matters for school districts and vendors across
exemptions and those approved in the revision to the State the State of Arizona and across the country. He may be reached at:
Board of Education School District Procurement Rules. I will bmunch@vsit.org.

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