How are school stacks up

I have just completed the review of technology for our district. I did have some trouble determining a few things. I was not sure of budgetary item that appeared on the survey. I am not sure of my districts funding of professional growth. I don't know if it is a line item in the tech budget or not. I also did not know about tech materials. The question asked if tech purchases were separate or part of the textbook funds. Again I am not sure where some of the money comes from. In the past when we have adopted new text books we have been getting any accompanying software. Those item definitely came from a textbook budget.
Our professional development is not done very well.

We lack Vision at our school. The people in charge are becoming less able to focus on tech issues. In the past (I will use this phrase a lot because I have been at my school for sooo long.) we met as a group of tech people. We knew what plans were coming down the pike. We had input into whether we thought a certain form of technology would be used. In the past 3 years I have seen my tech coordinator bow to people of the community, the school board and the superintendent. He is at wits end. He also believes his job "is on the line" at every decision. He has only be lackluster in his defense of tech.

We used to meet at a tech group then our meeting became co-opted into a curiculum committee. This technology and curriculum committee met and talked about curriculum mostly. I found out after it had started that we had a few school board members with agendas. They want to impose their own forms of curriculum. One wanted gifted programs for science brought into our school. We are a small district and we cannot offer advanced classes for every discipline. She still carried on, unsurprisingly she had 2 students in the district at the very grade level she wanted the advanced classes. The other member wants us to get our tech cheap. He can't understand why tech purchases cost so much. He always wanted us to negociate the price we would pay. We were and still are a small school district at the time our money was as good as anyone elses. He also had some old tech that he thought the school could use. He gave us 10 year old servers and 6 year old laptops with no OS, and not enough power cords. The committee is as far as I know disbanded.
We had a committee that worked and it became so changed that it no longer worked.