Overnight School Trips: Vendors, Contracts, Fundraising, Cancellation, Reimbursement

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Fees: $55 (Non-Member) / $30 (Member)

This presentation will explain the legal issues associated with overnight trips, including identifying and explaining key terms in vendor contracts, identifying potential liability in parent participation agreements, explaining issues associated with fundraising, and explaining potential issues when reimbursing participants for cancelled trips, including reimbursing fundraised money, partial reimbursement, and travel insurance.

Although the presentation uses school trips as the presentations primary lens, the principles apply to many other activities in which a district contracts with a vendor and fundraises money.

Brian DeSantis

Attorney, Pepple & Waggoner, Ltd

Brian DeSantis is frequently called upon to advise school boards on high-stakes issues. Brian has counseled boards at risk of state intervention; resolved complex, multi-million-dollar school funding disputes; successfully defended school boards in protracted special education litigation; and created compliance systems for school districts sponsoring community schools.

Brian’s experience encompasses counseling clients through employment issues, representing school boards in labor and other contract negotiations, drafting education legislation, advising on constitutional law issues, and counseling on matters related to career-technical education. As a result, he has the ability to see the big picture and provide proactive guidance.

 Outside of work, Brian is an avid baseball fan, an ardent podcast listener, and an “occasional” runner. He graduated from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, earned an M.A. from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. from Wittenberg University, where he spent a summer studying in the African Kingdom of Lesotho. Prior to his legal career, Mr. DeSantis served as the Assistant Director of the Wittenberg Fund, where he guided annual fundraising to exceed $2.5 million. A product of Mayfield City School District, he lives in Bay Village with his wife, who works as a nurse practitioner, and their two children.

Amy Reineke

Treasurer, New Knoxville Local SD

Amy Reineke has been the Treasurer/CFO at New Knoxville School for 5 years. New Knoxville School consists of one building with grades K-12. Current total enrollment is 375 students. We are a very small district. 

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Overnight School Trips: Vendors, Contracts, Fundraising, Cancellation, Reimbursement
Recorded 04/26/2021
Recorded 04/26/2021
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