[BHS etree] SUPT: Eric Smith Returns As BUSD Deputy Superintendent

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Contact: Mark A. Coplan, BUSD Public Information Officer,
Mark_Coplan at berkeley.k12.ca.us

To All Staff and Community,

I am pleased to announce the return to our District of Eric Smith.
Beginning September 1, 2005 Eric will once again assume the duties of
Deputy Superintendent with an emphasis in the financial and
operational aspects of our organization. Since Eric served in this
capacity with such success before he left to attend to urgent family
matters, I feel certain that our progress on many issues can continue
without disruption and flourish under his leadership.

Eric is considered by his peers as one of the five best chief
business officials in the State. He has twenty year of experience in
school business management and is the only sitting CBO in the State
to have worked as a Chief Business Official for a school district, a
county office of education and for the State's Fiscal Crisis and
Management Assistance Team (FCMAT). In addition to his extensive
knowledge of all aspects of school district operations, he is
recognized as an expert in school facilities finance and
construction.

He is known by many in this State as an individual of competence and
action. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from
Cal Poly, Pomona and a Master's of Public Administration from
California State University, Stanislaus. Eric is a CASBO certified
Chief Business Official. Glenston Thompson has resigned his post as
Deputy, effective Aug. 3, to seek other employment opportunities
outside the District.
Looking forward to a great new school year,
Michele Lawrence

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Mark A. Coplan
Public Information Officer, BUSD
510-644-6320
Mark_Coplan at berkeley.k12.ca.us
Berkeley Unified School District
2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Berkeley, Ca 94704-1180