Reed City Area Public Schools - 2024-25 Check Register Spending

[Shadowninja]

Dearest reader,

We have followed the students, the staffing, and the compensation.

Now we follow the checks.

Lady B reviewed Reed City Area Public Schools' 2024-25 check register and sorted identifiable spending into four familiar buckets.

Legal:
$20,054.00

Consulting:
$41,000.00

Advertising/media:
$85,568.41

Association dues & memberships:
$10,593.34

Combined identifiable spending:
$157,215.75

The largest bucket?

Advertising and media.

K12 Media alone accounts for $74,007.00.

Legal spending, meanwhile, totaled $20,054 — including $18,054 to Thrun Law Firm and $2,000 to Miller Johnson Snell & Cummiskey.

And a reminder about what these numbers mean:

This is not a declaration that these expenditures were unnecessary or inappropriate.

A check register tells us who was paid and how much.

It does not, by itself, tell us whether taxpayers received good value for every dollar.

That requires context.

But $157,215.75 is enough context to make the next question worth asking:

What did Reed City receive for the money?

Because Lady B isn't interested in declaring every expenditure bad simply because a check was written.

She is interested in knowing what the check bought.

With receipts and respect.

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