ROSEVILLE - 2024-25 DISTRICT-PAID ASSOCIATION DUES

[Shadowninja]

Dearest reader,

For Step 4 of our Roseville Community Schools review, I decided to follow a different set of receipts: the district's own list of association dues.

For the 2024-25 school year, Roseville reported spending $44,838.49 in district-paid association dues.

And where did that money go?

Among the larger payments:

Michigan Association of School Boards – Business Office: $8,050.29
Michigan Association of Secondary School Principals: $6,875.00
Michigan Elementary & Middle School Principal Association: $4,193.00
National School Boards Association: $4,165.00
Michigan Association of Superintendents & Administrators: $2,014.95
Michigan School Business Officials: $1,510.00

When I totaled only the organizations whose names clearly identify them as school board, administrator, principal, business-official or other management professional associations, I got $28,263.24.

That is approximately 63% of all association dues reported by the district.

A little clarification before anyone gets ahead of the ledger: this does not mean these memberships are improper. Professional associations can provide training, resources, advocacy, networking and other services.

But $44,838.49 is still taxpayer money, and taxpayers deserve to know where it goes.

And I deliberately did not toss every vaguely administrative-sounding organization into that 63% calculation. If the organization's name didn't clearly support the classification, I left it out.

No guessing. No padding the number. Just another little corner of the ledger that doesn't usually get much attention.

With receipts and respect. 🪶

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