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The Finance & Operations Division is lead by Assistant Superintendent for Finance & Operations Adel Felix, CPA, CFE, and the division is responsible for the direct supervision and management of the business operations of the District.

 

The Division is composed of the Finance, Purchasing, Payroll & Employee Benefits, Personnel, Insurance, Internal Auditing, and Federal Programs Departments.

 

The Finance Department is led by Sylvia D. Garcia, CPA, Director.

The Finance Department encompasses Accounts Payable and Fixed Assets.

 

Amaro Tijerina, Director, leads the Purchasing Department.

 

Sara Gonzalez, Director, oversees the Payroll & Employee Benefits Department.

 

Mark Micallef, Director, manages the Personnel Department.

 

Angela Trevino, Supervisor, leads the Insurance Department.

 

Delia C. Orellana and Carlos Resendez, District Auditors, spearhead the Internal Audit Department.

 

Norma Santa Maria, Director, heads the Federal Programs Department team.

Within Finance & Operations, the Federal Programs Department encompasses the Migrant and Parental Involvement Departments.

 

 

 

 

 

The Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) established the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting Program (ACFR Program) in 1945 to encourage and assist state and local governments to go beyond the minimum requirements of generally accepted accounting principles to prepare comprehensive annual financial reports that evidence the spirit of transparency and full disclosure and then to recognize individual governments that succeed in achieving that goal. The goal of the program is not to assess the financial health of participating governments, but rather to ensure that users of their financial statements have the information they need to do so themselves.

 

 

Reports submitted to the ACFR program are reviewed by selected members of the GFOA professional staff and the GFOA Special Review Committee (SRC), which comprises individuals with expertise in public sector financial reporting and includes financial statement preparers, independent auditors, academics, and other finance professionals.

 

 

The Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts' Transparency Stars program recognizes local governments for going above and beyond in their transparency efforts. The program recognizes government entities that accomplish the following:

 

Open their books not only in their traditional finances, but also in the areas of contracts and procurement, economic development, public pensions and debt obligations; and provide clear 

and meaningful financial information not only by posting financial documents, but also through summaries, visualizations, downloadable data and other relevant information.