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On September 12, 2006 the Christina
School District
Board of Education approved a
charter for the District Financial
Review Committee (FRC) in accordance
with Senate Bill 308. This bill
requires that the Christina Board
establish a committee composed of
one or more members of the Board and
residents of the Christina School
District. On March 23, 2010, the
Christina Board of Education
approved a name change and a new
charter for this committee, now
known as the Citizen Budget
Oversight Committee (CBOC).
The CBOC works in collaboration with
the Board of Education to closely
monitor the financial status of the
school district and provide ongoing
oversight.
Click here to view the Citizen
Budget Oversight Committee Charter.
The current members of the
Citizen Budget Oversight Committee are:
THOMAS
JOHNSTON
(FY11 - Chairperson)
is a resident of Newark. For
the last six years he has been an
instructor at the University of
Delaware in the Accounting and MIS
Department. He holds an MS in
Information Systems and
Technological Management from the
University of Delaware and a BS in
Business Management, Accounting and
Information Systems from Indiana
University of Pennsylvania, Indiana,
PA. He is currently BRAC
Project Grant Coordinator at Cecil
College, Elkton Station Campus,
Elkton, MD and is charged with
assisting relocated employees and
contractors from the Ft. Monmouth,
NJ Army base moving to Aberdeen
Proving Grounds (APG) in Aberdeen,
MD by 2012. Mr. Johnston also
teaches computer courses at Delaware
Technical and Community College and
will be teaching computer courses at
Cecil College in the Business
Training and Corporate Services
department. His wife, Gale
Sparks Johnston, is an Education
Diagnostician (ED) in the Red Clay
School District. Prior to his
teaching day, Johnston worked as a
Senior Consultant for both public
and private firms for 30 years.
The Johnstons have three grown
children who were students in the
Christina School District throughout
their pre-collegial educational
period.
CHARLES
"BUD"
MULLIN
(FY11 - Vice-Chairperson)
has been a resident of Bear for the
last 25 years. Bud first started
his volunteer activities with the
Christina School District in 1987,
when the new Brader Elementary
School was opened. Bud joined the
PTA and was President,
Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer
and Mascot during the years when his
children went to Brader. He then
graduated with his children, to
Bancroft, and became President of
their PTA for 2 years, when he
broadened his horizons and he
successfully ran for the Christina
School Board in 1993. Mr. Mullin
served on the Board in many
different capacities including
President and Vice-President as well
as many different committees on the
state and school levels until his
term ended in 2003. Also in 2003,
Bud joined the Christina Educational
Enrichment Fund, which provides
scholarships for deserving children
in Christina, where he currently
serves as President. In 2003
he was approached to join Delaware
State PTA and was elected President
in 2005, and is currently in his 3rd
term. Mr. Mullin was the first
chairperson of the initial Finance
Committee formed in 2005-2006, and
is currently chairperson of the
property planning committee. Mr.
Mullin’s work career started at
Getty Oil in 1969 as an Accountant,
and he worked for 17 years as an
Accountant, Terminal Manager and
Accounting Supervisor until 1984
when Texaco bought Getty Oil. He
has been a Supervising Auditor for
SSBA, a Payroll Manager for
Ciba-Geigy, and an Accountant for
the State of Delaware. He currently
works as a PeopleSoft Administrator
for DART. Bud and his wife Judy
have two
grown children who were students in
the Christina School District
throughout their pre-collegial
educational period.
RACHEL
BUCK (FY11) is a resident of Newark and is a
Financial Analyst for a large
pharmaceutical company. She
has experience in project
management, budgeting, forecasting,
cost analysis, and auditing.
She holds a B.S. in Chemical
Engineering and a M.B.A. with a
concentration in Finance, both from
Villanova University. Her
husband is the Director of Catering
at the University of Delaware.
RICHARD
GASKINS (FY10) has more than 30
years of domestic and international
human resource experience, enhanced
with 8 years of human resource
consulting. His background includes
non-profit and for profit business
planning experience as a manager of
a social service agency, a human
resource executive, and
establishment of diversity
departments in two Fortune 500
companies. He is a graduate of
Boston University and Wilberforce
University
PAUL
SEDACCA (FY10)
is a fourth grade teacher at
McVey Elementary School. He has
been working in the Christina School
District for eleven years. Paul
started out as a substitute teacher
and has taught TAM Classrooms as
well as Title One and Self Contained
classrooms. He is currently a
member of the DSEA Vision 2015 Task
Force, The Christina Discovery Team,
and the Christina Appraisals
Committee. Paul has a Masters
Degree in Elementary Education and
an Administrative Certificate as
well.
In addition,
four members of the Christina Board
of Education volunteered to serve as
liaisons to the committee: |
