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Purchasing Sessions
107: Conflict of Interest and Ethics
This presentation will be an overview of Conflict
of Interest and Ethics as applicable with ARS 38-
501 through 511. Conflict of Interest can fall within
three categories: 1. Is it legal? 2. Is it ethical?, and 3.
It may be legal and ethical, but does is demonstrate
Professional Competence? Join us for an interactive
discussion with specific scenarios that will help you
recognize Conflict of Interest as it can occur within
school districts.
Presented By: Lila McCleery & Joe Motola- Phoe-
nix Union High School District
207: Dealing with Customer Agreements in
Bids and Proposals
We all have encountered customer, sales, mainte-
nance, lease or some other type of agreement that
vendors require when using their services. This
session will be a panel discussion, where we can all
share tips, tricks and examples of what has worked
for your agency in the past when dealing with these
troublesome agreements.
Presented By: Mark DiBlasi- Mohave Educational
Services Cooperative Inc., Gary Barkman- Mesa
Public Schools, & Nancy Cobaugh- Mohave Edu-
cational Services Cooperative Inc. & Lila Mc-
Cleery- Phoenix Union High School District
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307: Writing and Evaluating an RFI
Do you need to prepare an RFP but not sure how
to approach it? Don’t have all the expertise or spec-
ifications, yet? Learn to utilize your local resources
and consider an RFI to accomplish this task of ob-
taining the proper specifications! The investment
will surely help you to realize everything needing
to be considered!
Presented By: Gary Barkman- Mesa Public
Schools & Bill Munch- Valley Schools
407: Tools for General Fixed Assets
Reconciliation (Infinite Visions Users)
This presentation will cover the basics of annual
reconciliation specific to general fixed assets, why
it is important and implementing a Microsoft Ex-
cel file to perform reconciliation accurately and ex-
peditiously while conforming to the requirements
of the USFR. The recently developed file features
macros features as well as database functions.
This innovative tool can be helpful for those with
all levels of familiarity with Excel and Visions. A
handout will be distributed with the presentation
to follow along. As the file is digital, a version will
be displayed for the presentation and distributed
digitally to those who request it.
Presented By: Joseph Leon- Phoenix Elementary
School District