January 7, 2015 at 12:00 PM - Executive Committee Meeting

Discussion:  Staff: Dave Ludwig, Deb Hericks, Priscilla Quintana.

Discussion:  David Ludwig reviewed his goals for the year. Top priorities will be finances, policies/procedures, improve statewide Professional Developments Organizations and including NDE and stakeholders. Next step, President and Executive Director will review second section and bring back to Executive Committee for review at next months meeting. If Board members have any input, please let Board President within the week.

Discussion:  Discussion was held that the April meeting needs to be changed due to NDE Board meetings. Move meeting to April 8/9.

Discussion:  Executive Director reviewed the Statewide Technology Plan that was created by a small group. The documents put all activities with some dates attached to keep processes moving forward. Recommendation to sign Memorandum of Understanding with IlliniCloud partnership.

Discussion:  Board reviewed the final audit of state auditors. There will be no formal presentation from Auditors to Board. A lot of findings were prior findings but they note that findings have since been implemented just not in current audit.

Discussion:  Continue to work on "draft" version with final due at March meeting. Last fall, ESU 13 provided a letter regarding verbiage in MSA, need to revisit this letter.

Discussion:  David Ludwig and Deb Hericks will work on creating ESUCC and PD calendar.

Discussion:  Larianne Polk discussed ESU Services and how they will affect future funding. What services do ESUs charge their schools? Recommended to create a spreadsheet in Google Docs to include all ESUs information. Does anyone have Policy and Procedures for Board Members attending national conventions? Please share with other ESUs.