Can ASB legally pay for the Activities Director to attend the CADA conference?
Question: I would like to know if ASB can legally pay for the Activities Director to attend the CADA conference. Response: Allowable expenditures from ASB funds need to be directly linked to the students’ benefit and also must be outside of what must be and has been provided by the school district’s general funding sources in the past. There is no “list “of what is acceptable or not (and legal or not), so we always suggest that school districts specify in their ASB policy what is considered appropriate. Also, since I am assuming the expenditure is for your high school, the students have to be involved and agree on the decisions of how the ASB funds are to be spent prior to them occurring. In the question you have raised, the answer would be “yes” if the ASB votes and decides that the director can attend the CADA workshop and this is past practice. Many school district ASBs have paid for their directors to attend CADA for years, and the students have found that to be an acceptable charg
