NEENAH – A number of months considering the fact that the Neenah Joint School District’s deputy superintendent of business enterprise companies all of a sudden died after getting attacked by a swarm of hornets, the district has named a new chief fiscal officer.
As portion of a restructuring of the district business office, Jon Joch will in essence fill the posture previously held by Andrew Thorson, in accordance to a district news release. The district is nonetheless seeking for a director of business companies.
Thorson, 38, died in August from complications right after he was stung by a swarm of hornets. The district has credited him for enjoying a massive position in the passage of a just about $115 million referendum past spring.
“We were being so privileged to have Andrew as a portion of our district,” Superintendent Mary Pfeiffer mentioned in August. “Andrew touched so a lot of lives within our district and in our neighborhood. He experienced a heat individuality, an amazingly calming presence and he will be drastically missed.”
As main economic officer, Joch will taking care of the district’s $105.7 million spending budget this faculty calendar year, the initial nine-digit spending budget in district history — largely the result of the lately-passed referendum. Joch also serves a member of the core setting up group for the development of the new Neenah Substantial School and co-chairs the new higher school’s athletics and recreation services committee.
Ahead of assuming his new part, Joch labored in the district’s enterprise business office for the previous decade as the director of profits enhancements and organization providers guidance. He was the district’s position of speak to for alumni features, grant composing and economic gifts and donations, the district claimed. Dependable for the district’s banking and investments services as properly as checking the district’s money circulation, Joch was named the district’s Administrator of the Year in 2014.
Joch is a Neenah Substantial School graduate and previously served as Neenah Substantial University functions director from 2007 to 2010. Ahead of that, he labored as the high school’s bookkeeper.
Joch graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point with a bachelor’s degree in small business administration and economics. He also done a instructing certification in business instruction from Concordia College.
“Jon is not only the correct particular person, but the best human being to carry on and enhance the remarkable do the job staying completed in our business business,” Pfeiffer mentioned in the launch. “We are fortuitous to have these a devoted and loyal human being with the qualifications and working experience necessary to fill this critical part.”
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