{"id":18,"date":"2012-03-09T20:18:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T20:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.lps.org\/busaff\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2025-07-01T15:59:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T20:59:42","slug":"business-affairs-key-staff","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/busaff\/business-affairs-key-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Affairs Key Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Liz Standish<\/b>\u00a0\u2013 Associate Superintendent for Business Affairs: Responsible for school district finances and operations.\u00a0 Responsible for the departments of Accounting, Audit, Budget, Computing Services, Facilities, Maintenance, Nutrition Services, Operations (Custodial and Transportation), Payroll, Purchasing, and Transportation.\u00a0Telephone number: 402-436-1635; email address: lstandis@lps.org.<\/p>

Phillip Skorupa<\/b> \u2013 Director of Transportation: Oversees transporting students to and from school and school-sponsored events.\u00a0Telephone number: 402-436-1073; email address: pskorup@lps.org.<\/p>

April Douglas<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Business Affairs Specialist: Coordinates operation of Business Affairs office and provides direct support to the Associate Superintendent for Business Affairs.\u00a0Telephone number: 402-436-1636; email address: adougla@lps.org.<\/p>

Matt Bellamy<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Director of Purchasing:\u00a0Responsible for procurement and distribution of supplies, equipment, and services for the District. Telephone number: 402-436-1753; email address: mbellam@lps.org.<\/p>

Jessica Jefferson<\/strong> \u2014 Director of Accounting and Payroll: Oversees the Accounting and Payroll Department.\u00a0 Also responsible for the monthly financial analysis of all district funds and fiscal reporting to the Nebraska Department of Education.\u00a0 Telephone number: 402-436-1706; email address: jjeffers@lps.org.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Kim Schmidt\u00a0<\/b>\u2013 Director of Budget and Finance: Directs development of the District and ESU budgets.\u00a0 Prepares budget materials, projection system, general fund and special education current staffing reports; allocates school and equipment funds and teacher allocation funds.\u00a0Responsible for the fiscal management of the district, including fiscal analysis of property tax levies and valuations, bond indebtedness, and leases.\u00a0 Telephone number: 402-436-1708; email address: kschmidt@lps.org.<\/p>

Director of Operations: Responsible for maintenance of all LPS buildings and grounds; coordinates and oversees the design and construction of all new facilities; supervises custodial staff working at all LPS locations.<\/p>

Andrew Ashelford\u00a0<\/b>\u2013 Director of Nutrition Services:\u00a0Supervises school lunch program for LPS.\u00a0Telephone number: 402-436-1742; email address: aashelf@lps.org.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liz Standish\u00a0\u2013 Associate Superintendent for Business Affairs: Responsible for school district finances and operations.\u00a0 Responsible for the departments of Accounting, Audit, Budget, Computing Services, Facilities, Maintenance, Nutrition Services, Operations (Custodial and Transportation), Payroll, Purchasing, and Transportation.\u00a0Telephone number: 402-436-1635; email address: lstandis@lps.org. Phillip Skorupa \u2013 Director of Transportation: Oversees transporting students to and from school and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"template-nosidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/busaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/busaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/busaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/busaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/busaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/busaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/busaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.lps.org\/busaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}