June, 2005
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Thank you, KASBO members, for some great professional development opportunities at the convention this year! Based on the evaluations of the sessions presented, over 80% of the responses were in the 4 or 5 range, with 5 being rated Best. I think this speaks highly for those of you who presented or who were responsible for obtaining a speaker.
We had some very good suggestions for making next year’s convention even better. Those suggestions will go to the Professional Development Committee for consideration. One suggestion that has been mentioned more than once is to take into consideration the different sizes of school districts when planning sessions. Every district is unique in terms of size and job duties and KASBO will attempt to recognize this diversity when planning in the future.
We are always interested in getting suggestions from you on topics you would be interested in getting more information on. Fred Meier will be the new chairman of the Professional Development Committee next year and would love to hear from you. He can be reached at fmeier@indyschools.com.
Kathleen Whitley, USD 457 Garden City
KASBO President Elect
KASBO’s Distinguished Service Award recognizes an individual who has provided outstanding service to the organization and to education in Kansas. This year’s recipient is a graduate of St. Joseph High School and Emporia State University. He spent four years in the US Air Force earning the Distinguished Flying Cross. He worked 4 years in the private sector before beginning his business career in education in 1976. From 1976 to 1987 he worked as the Business Manager/Clerk of the Board for Osawatomie USD 367. From there he moved to Salina Public Schools, were he will retire at the end of this year. In 1999 Mike received the USA Certificate of Recognition and in 2004 he received Salina’s Board of Education “Golden Apple” for meritorious service to education and the school business profession in Kansas. Mike is a highly-respected member of the Salina community. Throughout his career he has served on numerous advisory groups, councils, search committees and as a resource not only to education agencies, but to local governments and arts agencies. Congratulations to KASBO’s 2005 Distinguished Service Award Winner, Mike Soetaert, Executive Director of Business and Clerk of the Board, Salina Public Schools.
Mike, thanks for all you have done for KASBO, enjoy retirement.
Kathy Johnson, USD 497 Lawrence
Awards & Citation Chairman
The first KASBO Convention bowling tournament was held on the morning of Wednesday April 20, 2005 at Northrock Lanes in Wichita. The tournament consisted of eleven teams with four persons each. The winning team (Nancy Arwood, Michelle Burroughs, Bill Folsom, and Terri Guenther) with a score of 1765 was awarded individual team trophies, $10 cash, and stadium seats donated by KCD. The second place team (Nadine Foreman, Nancy Miller, Marjorie Powell, and Shannon Traylor) with a score of 1536 ) was awarded individual team trophies and $5 cash. The high scorer (Nancy Arwood) with a score of 684 was awarded a trophy and $20 cash. A fun time was had by all and many expressed the hope that the bowling tournament would continue to be offered during future KASBO conventions.
James Baker, USD 266 Maize
Tournament Director
Steve Williams, USD 266 Maize
Assistant Tournament Director
KASBO GOLF had its annual Pre-Convention Golf Tournament at Hidden Lakes Golf Course in Derby, Kansas on Wednesday Morning April 21st. We had 17 full teams as 68 golfers enjoyed a beautiful day on the links. The format was a Four-Person Scramble, and we had 12 hole prizes contests throughout the event as well. The day started with registration, breakfast and warm up, and was followed after golf by a BBQ Buffet Lunch. Many Corporate Sponsors were involved in the event from sponsoring our beverage cart, breakfast, lunch, hole prizes, cash prizes and 7 companies actually purchased hole sponsorships to round out our event!
KASBO would like to thank all those that participated and those corporate sponsors that made this annual event a true success! See you next year in Topeka!
Rod Spangler, Tournament Director
Kansas State Manager
American Fidelity Assurance Company
2005-2006 promises to be an interesting year for KASBO members. Hopefully by the time you receive this publication, we will have all the information necessary to develop and complete our budgets. Your Professional Development Committee is anxious to bring the information and programs you want to "know about" at this year's Fall and Winter Workshops as well as the annual Convention. We will begin meeting in late August to begin the planning process. Please share your thoughts, ideas, or if you would like to become a member of this committee with either Kathleen Whitley, Karen Schadel, Gary Diener or Fred Meier.
For your planners/calendars, the 2005-2006 schedule will be:
Fall Workshop -- October 13 and 14, 2005 at the
Salina Holiday Inn
Winter Workshop -- February 23, 2006 at the Smoky Hill Service Center in Salina.
KASBO Convention -- April 19, 20 & 21, 2006 at the Topeka Capital Plaza Hotel
Please mark these dates and locations on your planners now so you won't forget. We would like to see all KASBO members in attendance.
Fred Meier, USD 446 Independence
KASBO Vice President
April 19, 2005 KASBO Board of Directors Meeting and the
2005 KASBO State Convention-
Hello KASBO members and vendors! Thank all of you for another successful year at the 2005 KASBO State Convention. Our hope is that you all got to do something new this year. Choices ranged from the Bowling Tournament to the Casino Night to the “Parking Lot Discussion”. If not you most certainly enjoyed the informative Vendor Showcase or the musical entertainment of impersonator, Roy Helm, or comical relief of our Friday Keynote speaker Pearl Rovaris-McDonald. Thank goodness that at this tense time someone allowed us the opportunity to laugh at ourselves. Furthermore, the Professional Development Committee provided our members with eight different tracts to choose from.
The upcoming year seems to hold more suspense than a B rated horror move. At the time of writing the Kansas State Supreme Court has issued a ruling for the Kansas Legislature to provide an additional $143 million dollars into the school finance formula passed earlier. All politics aside, pulling together a budget is almost impossible and those daring enough will have to come up with more than a few scenarios to anticipate the outcome. Fortunately KASBO members were able to gain words of wisdom from Dale Dennis and Veryl Peter, who, again bestowed their gracious wisdom and strategies to the attendees.
In other news, Dr. Rob Balsters, ASBO International Board of Director and KASBO Past President is now seeking the office of ASBO Vice President. As with our group, Rob’s successful candidacy would then allow him to move up to the offices of President-Elect and President of ASBO. The KASBO Board of Directors support Rob and hope that all ASBO members will by remembering to vote on-line prior to the ASBO Convention in October.
This year four more recipients were added to the KASBO Professional Recognition Program which serves to recognize those KASBO members who have earned points by attending KASBO and/or ASBO events and who have spent time working on committees or providing service to the organization in some other manner. As a reminder, don’t miss the opportunity to do something to enhance your career. Any Board member or committee member will attest to the fact that you always get more out of serving this organization than you put in.
Please note an exciting new service to KASBO members. Steve Koger, Vendor Representative from MACS and Greenbush, are providing a ListServ just for our members. The details are getting worked out but the idea is to have a tool to disseminate information to KASBO members without using it for surveys and advertising. There will also be a login setup for security. The information is included in this publication.
Todd Stephenson, USD 313 Buhler
KASBO Secretary
Kansas Investment Pool
Morris Group Associates
Kansas Contract Design
KASB
Superior School Supplies, Inc.
George K. Baum & Company
AIG VALIC
American Fidelity Assurance
Twotrees Technologies
Piper Jaffray & Company
KK Office Solutions
Mid-States School Equipment
Fry & Associates, Inc.
OFG Financial Services, Inc
Association Member Benefit
DataTeam Systems Inc.
M.A.C.S.
NDF Company
Poole Consulting Services, Inc.
Education Management Solutions
OPI Document Solutions
Citizens Bank & Trust
Four State Maintenance Supply, Inc
SchoolDude
Lankford Enterprises
Foundation for Educational Services,
ATHCO
TAC/Tour Andover Controls
CBIZ
KRONOS
Laidlaw Education Services
Skyward
Collins & Aikman
Envision
Office Depot/Tech Depot
Reliant Financial Services
Midwest Dairy Council
Keystone Information Systems Inc.
Interface Flooring Systems
Arthur Gallagher
Commerce Bank
Strategic Financial Concepts
Kansas State Use Program
A genuine thanks to the vendors for contributing to the success of the 2005 KASBO Convention. Your support at the Vendor Showcase was a huge part of our successful convention.
Supporting KASBO throughout the year with presentations at conventions and workshops, the hospitality rooms, supporting beverage breaks, the golf tournament and the bowling tournament are sincerely appreciated.
KASBO members, be sure and tell our vendor friends that contributed to the Casino Night and door prize drawings that this acknowledgement will appear on the KASBO Homepage at www.kasbo.org
KASBO is fortunate to have a significant group of vendors that support the KASBO program through out the year and the annual convention. The following vendors provided all the “Casino Night” auction items and all the Door prizes distributed during the convention:
Ace Hardware |
AdVeritas Construction |
Allied Wholesale |
American Express |
American Fidelity Assurance |
American State Bank |
Applebees |
Becker Tire |
Benefit Management Inc. |
Blue Cross & Blue Shield |
Capital City Bank |
Casey, Thomas, Hoover & Breault Investments |
CBIZ |
CDWC |
Cintas |
Citizens Bank & Trust |
Custom Energy |
E & E Glass |
Farmers Bank & Trust |
Foundation for Educational Services |
Four State Maintenance |
Fry & Associates |
Fry-Wagner |
Fuller Brush |
Gateway |
Howard State Bank |
IBM |
Identifications |
IMA Insurance |
Kansas Contract Design |
Kansas Truck |
Kansasland Tire |
KK Office Solutions |
KRONOS |
Lankford Enterprises |
MASSCO |
Midwest Coatings |
Northview Nursery |
Office Depot |
Office Products Inc. |
OPI Computer Division |
Orscheln Farm & Home |
Piper Jaffray |
Pizza Hut |
Prairie Fire Creations |
Preferred Health |
PRO Group |
SAM’s |
SBC |
School Specialty |
Sherwin Williams |
Skyward |
Southwest Paper Co |
Southwest Paper Co. |
Stanion Wholesale |
Strate Financial Services, Inc. |
TAC Americas |
TwoTrees Technologies |
United Office Supply |
USD 260 Derby Staff |
Walgreens |
Wal-Mart |
Waters True Value |
Wichita Marriott |
Xerox |
Hats off to the KASBO members that visited with the vendors and collected the gifts!
Enclosed in this KASBO newsletter is information regarding our new communication ListServ for KASBO members. We are excited to be able to work with Southeast Kansas Education Service Center and M.A.C.S. to bring you this application. Please review the guidelines and sign up according to the Registration instructions as soon as possible. In the near future this will become our main source of communication. Please don’t be left out by not signing up. If you have any difficulties signing up, please contact Steve Koger at steve.koger@m-a-c-s.com or Cindy Murphy at cindy.murphy@greenbush.org.
Sign up NOW before you leave the office today !!
Communication with membership is a critical component for any organization. Over the years KASBO communicated predominantly through the mail; but in recent years with the assistance of our Webmaster - Perry McCabe, developed a significant volume of information on our kasbo.org web site. While we have been able to communicate with email, the sheer logistics of keeping up-to-date with everyone’s addresses is a challenge, not to speak of the difficulties of sending our information to 400 plus locations without it appearing to be “spam” to the receiving servers.
We are about to take another major communication step forward with our own ListServe application - sponsored and maintained by Greenbush and long time sponsoring vendor M.A.C.S. In order to ensure that everyone has a good understanding of what we can expect from this application, the KASBO Board of Directors has developed the following Guidelines for its use:
You can subscribe to the ListServ by sending an email to kasbo-on@m-a-c-s.com. No need to put anything in the subject box or any text message. After you have sent the email, you will receive back in a few minutes a confirmation message from “KASBO administration”. Simply Reply to this message to confirm your registration. You are now registered into the KASBO ListServ group. If at any later date you would like to remove your email address from the group, simply send another email to kasbo-off@m-a-c-s.com and your address will be removed.