Name: Aaron Heinz
Title: Deputy Superintendent, Administrative Services
Employed by: Colusa County Office of Education
No. of Years a CASBO Member: 9
Please list all activities you have been involved in during your career that qualify you to apply for this position. Include such items as serving on CASBO section boards, committees, special committees, and committees outside of CASBO. Please also indicate the various positions you have held while serving on any committee.
CASBO State-Level Service
Chair / Past Chair, CASBO Financial Services Professional Council
Sacramento Section Representative, CASBO Financial Services Professional Council
Presenter, CASBO Annual Conference
CASBO Section-Level Service
Sacramento Section Member of the Year (2021-22)
President / Past President, Sacramento Section Board of Directors
Director I / Director IV, Sacramento Section Board of Directors
Chair, Sacramento Section Financial Services Professional Council
Member, Sacramento Section CBO Professional Council
Member, Sacramento Section Accounting Professional Council
Member, Sacramento Section Financial Services Professional Council
Additional Service
FCMAT CBO Mentor Program Cohort 11, Graduate
FCMAT CBO Mentor Program Cohort 18, Mentor
Treasurer, North Valley Schools Insurance Group (NVSIG)
JPA Board Member, Tri-County Schools Insurance Group (TCSIG)
Education
CASBO CBO Certification
Bachelor of Science, Accounting (Magna Cum Laude), Colorado State University – Global Campus
Please provide biographical information and any position statement you wish to make. This statement will be published in the CASBO publication in conjunction with balloting. Please limit your response to 200 words.
Hi there, I’m Aaron Heinz and I’m running for Vice President of CASBO. Like most CBOs, I have an interesting story in how I got here. I was a small business owner in a previous life, but when The Great Recession hit, I was forced to decide to leave my company and pivot into something new. I went back to school, and decided I wanted to be in education, specifically in the business office.
I started from the ground floor, literally, and worked my way up from a food service delivery driver into various levels of accounting and budget positions. I’ve also had key mentors along the way who helped me find success despite many roadblocks. In 2014, I was selected into the FCMAT CBO Mentor Program Cohort 11, where I learned the basics about being a CBO. And it was here where I learned from Francie Heim and Bill McGuire that though I was then an information taker, I would soon become an information giver, and pay it forward to others who were coming up after me. CASBO would become my vessel, and I’m forever grateful.
Be Kind.
Pull Someone Up.
The Little Things Matter.
Eye Of The Tiger.
Briefly describe why you want to be a member of the CASBO Board of Directors.
The history of CASBO is rich and bountiful, and filled with the names of distinguished leaders who sacrificed the most valuable asset I believe we can give someone else—our time. CASBO is built on making others better, a la iron sharpens iron. Its members, like you, strive not only on becoming better for themselves, but in making the lives of children and those that support them easier, a truly noble and selfless goal. We are all educators in this regard.
I am at a time in my career where helping others succeed, and in effect replacing myself, is one of the most important parts of what I do. And it will be until my days are done. To become a part of the CASBO Board of Directors would open up a statewide audience that I can help pull up, one success story at a time, and would be one of the greatest achievements I think I could ever be a part of.
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