January 21-22, 2009 • Kellogg Center, East Lansing
Agenda: 9 am to 4 pm each day
Get the latest information on the economy, the budget, state aid and advice on improving your leadership skills at the MSBO Financial Strategies Conference. This conference will help you and your district prepare for the upcoming budget and labor negotiation processes. Learn how to be a better leader for your business office and district. You can’t afford not to attend!
The special room rate for overnight accommodations at the East Lansing Marriott is available until Jan. 7, 2009. The Kellogg Center is sold out.
Lodging Information: Overnight accommodations are NOT included in the registration fee. A block of additional rooms is reserved at the East Lansing Marriott until January 7. Make your overnight accommodations directly with the East Lansing Marriott at 517.337.4440 in order to receive the conference rate. Conference rates are: $107 single/double. Identify MSBO as the group you are with to receive the special rates.
MSBO Financial Strategies Conference gives you information about:
Health Insurance – We’ll have multiple sessions to help you deal with changes in the health insurance. We’ll hear directly from MESSA on the new way they will be rating schools for health insurance premiums.
Find out how health insurance bidding is going, what’s happening with claims data and once you get your data, how will you need to use it to control your health insurance costs.
Learn how some districts have saved significant dollars by completing Employee Dependent Audits for their health care plan.
Economic Outlook, State Aid Revenue and the State Budget – Get a look at our Economic Future from the Executive Director of the House Fiscal Agency who will give us an analysis of our state and federal economic climate. Information from the January Revenue Consensus Conference will be hot off the presses. You'll receive the status of school finances and find out the latest per pupil funding estimate as you prepare for budgets and negotiations.
Negotiation Strategies – Find out which negotiation strategies might be appropriate this year as well as what strategies you might see from across the table. This update will be very timely as the negotiation season approaches and your district needs to start developing your own strategy.
Retirement Update – The Director of ORS will share how the latest financial events have affected the retirement system assets and how they might affect our rate next year. The latest board decisions related to allowable compensation will also be discussed. Might we also get a feel for what next year’s rate will be?
Tough Choices, Tough Times – Be challenged by a national speaker who will discuss a provocative proposal to radically restructure our educational system and how we educate kids. Can we think outside the box in order to maximize resources at the classroom level?
Improving Your Leadership – We all can use help being better leaders, no matter how good a leader we might be. It’s important to take time to make sure leadership is not forgotten in the school business community.
Hear from none other than our own Tom White on Leadership and Life’s Lessons – Tom will share thoughts from years of dealing with people and issues in the education arena.
Ethical leadership is something we seem to take for granted these days. This session will help you ensure that ethics is an important ingredient in how we lead our districts.
Are you providing leadership for your district by planning for changes in staffing – are you helping the transition and succession of strategic positions in your district? Learn some practical ways to help your school deal with changes in personnel in a proactive way.
Cost Recovery for Building Use – Is your building use from outside groups on the rise? Have your charges for use changed in recent years? How do you calculate your costs? This session will explore ways to assist you in assessing your true cost and give details on the magnitude of potential funds to be recovered.
Legislative Update – What are they doing now? What's next?
SB-CEU Information: Those who attend the entire conference (both days) will earn 1.1 SB-CEUs.
Registration Information: Register online or download the registration form and fax it to: 517.327.0768 or mail it to: 1001 Centennial Way, Suite 200, Lansing, MI 48917.
Fees: $235 MSBO members • $290 Non members
Questions: Contact Bob Dwan at 517.327.5924 or David Martell at 517.327.2581.