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Se ssi on s Sessions Thursday Learning Session E | Learning Session F Risk Management Online Professional Development Training & Tracking Systems Room: Presenter(s): 342A Javier Gaona | Frisco ISD Andrew Deitschel | SafeSchools Please join us for the Online Professional Development Training & Tracking Systems learning session. This session will discuss how online courses can provide an educational and flexible learning experience for busy educators. End Time: 11:15 am School Nutrition Five Things School Officials Need to Know about School Nutrition Room: Presenter(s): 351C Jeremy Trimble | Leander ISD Brian McDonald | Southwest Foodservice Excellence Lexi Cavaliere | Southwest Foodservice Excellence This presentation will discuss the top five things that school officials need to know to promote a successful School Nutrition Program. The following topics will be discussed: 1) How the recent regulations affect your nutrition program 2) General understanding of federal commodity allocations 3) How meal reimbursement can be affected 4) What should be identified in financial reports 5) Ways to increase participation End Time: 11:15 am What’s up with AR? Room: 351D Presenter(s): Melanie Konarik, RTSBA | Consultant This session will provide an Administrative Review update. End Time: 11:15 am Learning Session F Thursday, February 19 • 11:30am Accounting & Finance Bond Proceeds: Investing, Managing, Tracking, and Reporting Room: Presenter(s): 352B Patty Fougerat | Wells Fargo Government Banking Kenneth Adix, CTSBS | Pflugerville ISD Chapter 313 Tax Credits Room: Presenter(s): 340B Nancy Kuhn | TEA The session will highlight key elements for districts subject to the provisions under Texas Education Code §42.2515, Additional State Aid for Ad Valorem Tax Credits Under Texas Economic Development Act. 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm (30-Minute Express Session) Decision Making in School Business Room: Presenter(s): 352E Mark Youngs, RTSBA, RSBO | Keller ISD This session will discuss how to approach decision making in general and in school business in particular. The presentation will cover how to gather and assess data, poll those affected, and come to a conclusion in decision making. The session will also identify some best practices for informing stakeholders of changes. 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm (30-Minute Express Session) SHARS Cost Report Room: Presenter(s): 342F Stasia Viator | Texas State Billing Services Texas State Billing Services would like to connect with interested business managers and other key players in finance departments regarding the School Health and Related Services (SHARS) Cost Report. This quick session will cover the main p oints of the Cost Report, the benefits to the program, and answer any questions the attendees may have regarding the SHARS program and the Cost Report. 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm (30-Minute Express Session) Distribution & Inventory RFID Inventory Management in Schools Room: Presenter(s): 351F Independent Professional Management, Inc. This presentation focuses on an actual implementation of an asset management system utilizing RFID with an emphasis on back office software that tracks assets. We will have Ed Wooten, Purchasing Director from a client school district give his perspective. Areas of focus include: Selection: vendor and software implementation; Environmental study: including asset identifiers, RF interference, wireless coverage, physical condition of assets; Challenges Process Analysis: identifying - issues helped by RFID, eliminating process steps, whether or not the staff is receptive to change, process challenges, serial numbered assets /non-serial numbered assets, with versus without network connectivity, re-assigning tags, and new schools vs. existing schools reports. 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm (30-Minute Express Session) This presentation will discuss how to invest bond proceeds and will take the audience from the beginning to the end: how to invest in the market, how to manage the brokers offerings, how to manage the investments through the construction time frame and how to keep track for auditors and report to financial committees and school boards. End Time: 12:30 pm 62 TASBO REPORT | FEBRUARY 2015