July 31, 2019 at 3:00 PM - Regular Meeting

Discussion:  Call to order at 3:00 PM.  

Staff:  Kraig Lofquist, Deb Hericks, Priscilla Quintana

Discussion:  Approval of minutes for May ESUCC meeting.  

Discussion:  Executive Director welcomed everyone and explain that the budget hearing.  

Discussion:  Executive Director gave a review of the budget.  He shard some positive, challenges, and concerns we currently have for the budget for 2019-2020.  Some concerns we will be looking at the tier structure that we currently use for SRS.  There are also concerns for the COOP budget especially with services like Amazon that can have it to you the following day.  The budget hearing will be held in September.  

Discussion:  President shared that the Executive Committee had a retreat in June to discussed committee structure.  Reducing the committees from 7 to 4 committees.  She reviewed the document that was created by the Executive Committee.  

Discussion:  Review of the new committee structure and membership for 2019-2021.  Tried to only give the new administrators one committee.  Existing Administrators will have two committees.  Executive Committee will have least one person on each committee.  Concerns of having Technology and Coop together.  

The new committees for 2019-2020 will be as follows:
Executive Committee (Executive and Finance)
Education Resources (PDO, Student Services)
Legal (Legislative, Policies)
Information Services (Technology/Coop)

The committee reviewed past membership of committees to create the new committees. Here is the list of ESUCC_Committee_Membership 2019-2021
Please review and if you have any questions please let Kraig, Larianne, or myself know.  

The committees will meet at the same time each meeting:
Information Services (11:30-1:30)
Educational Resources (1:45-2:45)
Legal (3:00-4:00)
Executive (4:15-5:15)

ESUCC Board meeting following morning 8:30-11:30 with a box style lunch for those that want to take and leave.

Suggested to move Coop into Legal.  Move Greg Barnes to PDO and Cory Dahl to Technology.  Membership is for two year.  

Add organizational structure to the meeting.  
 

Discussion:  Shared updated Admin list.

Discussion:  Shared updated staff list.

Discussion:  Shared the committee and board meeting calendar.  

Discussion:  There is no public comment.

Discussion:  Treasurer reviewed budget reports for April and May to be approved by the Board.  

Discussion:  Treasurer reviewed the expenses to approve the expenses from May and June

Discussion:  Technology Committee Chair shared the reports from state tech report.  CIO office is looking into the accessibility.  E-RATE be sure to double check with staff to make sure they received the email to verify plans.  KSB webinars have been discussed new training have been released.  

Discussion:  Nothing to report.

Discussion:  PDO Planning Committee met to discuss PDO for future trying to make it relevant for everyone.  The Committee began to create the agenda for September 10-11 PDO.  Comprehensive Needs Assessment (CNA) possibly to be rolled out at September PDO.  Evidence Based Analysis (EBA) reviewers needed for this year, NDE would like to have 33 people to be reviewers.  Review work to be done the last two weeks of October.  A small group met with Cory Epler to discussed how to roll out High Quality Instructional Materials Fellowship. This will be a national initiative.  Have updates from NDE workgroups at meetings more in depth than talking points.  ESSA Leadership and Learning Committee (ELLC) - visiting other states to see how they are addressing the issues.  ESU 3 will be purchasing Hanover Research to be able to have a library of research available.  Research priority brief for ESU 3 on professional development for administrators called Professional Development for Rural Administrators.  Dr. Schnoes will be sending out to all administrators.  Let Dr. Schnoes if there is something that we want research to be shared out with everyone.  Discussed the possibility of Instructional Materials.  

Discussion:  ESPD did meet yesterday.  Initial Evaluation had a 45 day evaluation, it has been brought to our attention that it is 45 days or within 60 calendars.  New final financials will need to be finalized by October 31.  They continuing to discuss MIPS.  SRS was a topic of discussions.  Consortium for Title are due September 12.  Steve Milliken will be moving into a Deputy Commissioner roll that was previously held by Mark Schultz.  

Discussion:  LR 63 - Legislative Study for the ESUs.  Dr. Skretta met with Senator Linehan.  There are 6 or 8 studys and categorized them in order of importance and LR 63 was #2.  Bromm's have met with about 10 senators over past few weeks to get a feel for the study.  There is a Senator that is friend of our and wants to figure out.  Couple of districts have shared with Senators that they fill a few ESUs are over charging the schools.  Senator Linehan is wanting to know more about single district ESUs.  NDE shared some information on studies and discussed ESUs and said that maybe they should take a look at some of the past studies that were done.  Not sure if there will be a hearing.  Senator Chambers is coming up on his last session.  A few Senators are working on some solutions to support ESUs.  Send positive feedback out to Senators to keep educating them.  Bromm's shared that we need a better marketing campaign.  

Discussion:  President shared with new administrators that we have this item on the agenda for their questions.  

Discussion:  Meeting adjourned at 4:55 PM.