REVISED MEETING AGENDA

 

Joint Education Interim Committee

Room 302, State Capitol Building

Cheyenne, Wyoming

January 28-29, 2008

 

Monday, January 28, 2008

 

8:30 a.m.        Call to Order/Opening Remarks.

Senator Hank Coe, CoChair

Representative Del McOmie, CoChair

 

Approval of Minutes.

·         December 5-6, 2007 Meeting

 

Community Colleges.

Several matters are carried forward from previous discussions during October 22-23 meeting deliberations, as well as from December 5-6 meeting deliberations.

 

·         08LSO-0275, "Community colleges-statewide levy-2."

CoChair Coe

 

·         08LSO-0306, "Community colleges-capital construction."

Jim Rose, Wyoming Community College Commission

 

School Finance Litigation Update.

Mike O'Donnell, State's Counsel

 

School Foundation Program Account Fiscal Update.

Brenda Long, LSO

 

School Finance.

School finance issues carried forward from previous discussions during September 24 and December 5-6 meeting deliberations.

 

·         08LSO-0270, "School finance-at-risk programs."

Deputy State Superintendent Joe Simpson

 

·         08LSO-0271, "School finance-distance education."

Mary Kay Hill, WDE

 

·         08LSO-0272, "School finance-instructional facilitators."

Deputy State Superintendent Joe Simpson

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·         08LSO-0149, "School finance-food services."

Mary Kay Hill, WDE

·         08LSO-0273, "School finance-rebated recapture-2."

Representative Sue Wallis

 

·         08LSO-0274, "School finance-recapture payments."

Senator Mike Massie

 

·         08LSO-0282, "School finance-district interest earnings."

CoChairs Coe and McOmie

 

5:00 p.m.         Recess.

 

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

 

8:30 a.m.         Reconvene.

Senator Hank Coe, CoChair

Representative Del McOmie, CoChair

 

School Finance.

Continued from previous day as necessary.

 

Allocation-Expenditure Study.

Following up on preliminary findings submitted at the June 18, 2007 Committee meeting and in accordance with 2006 Laws, Chapter 37, Section 8, Picus & Associates will present its analysis of school district expenditures following implementation of the recalibrated block grant model, the impact of education strategies underlying the recalibrated model on district education programs and the programmatic uses by districts of resources made available under the model.  This effort is based upon school year 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 expenditure data.

 

Larry Picus and Allan Odden, Picus & Associates

 

WDE Budget Overview

A synopsis of the 2009-2010 biennial budget request of the Department of Education.

 

State Superintendent Jim McBride

 

Finalization of Committee Interim Business.

 

Adjournment.