Target audience:  superintendents, finance business officials, and board members.  

With unprecedented budget challenges preventing districts from adequately funding improvements take steps to achieve high performance schools.  This Lunch & Learn workshop will offer successful options when challenges preclude the traditional "pass a bond and then build" approach.

·         identify the primary problems

·         utilize Kansas statutes and programs to reallocate  appropriated funds

·         achieve long overdue district facility improvements

·         stretch Bond dollars when Bond issue amount is insufficient

·         fund "Green Building" premium and/or other District WISH LIST items

Topics addressed will include:

o   Learn to master the Statutory Fiscal Tool

*  Authorized by Kansas Statute

*  Administered by Kansas Corporation Commission

*  Advocated by the Kansas legislature, Governor,  and KSDE

o   Financial Choices and Implications

*  Status quo – Annual capital outlay projects – will this fulfill District needs?

*  Pass a bond – is this politically feasible?  For new or fixing old?  When, and will it be enough? 

*  Statutory Fiscal Tool - Reallocating currently appropriated funds for optimal learning environment impact

o   Construction Cost Escalation Drivers

*  Energy

*  Global Markets

*  Population Migrations

*  Falling Value of Dollar

*  Global Construction Demand

*  Steel, Copper, Concrete, PVC

*  Natural Disasters

*  Sustainable Building Movement

o   Unfunded Mandates

o   Expense Increases without Appropriation Increases

*  Transportation / fuel / food

*  Teacher / substitute

o   Rate Spread Opportunity

o   Statutes, compliance, methods, and benefits to achieve high performance schools