Next Wednesday's agenda can be found here. Items of note:
X. New Business
B. Discussion and Possible Approval of Financial Audit 2008-2009 – Reilly, Penner & Benton LLP
-The audit results of the 2008-9 year will be presented to the board. The report details a very clean audit with no compliance issues or discrepencies found. The one deficiency noted is that the district relies on the Audit accountants to prepare detailed financial statements in compliance with the complicated GAAP requirements. The auditor notes that this is a very common practice among school districts due to the level of expertise required.
C. Report from Applied Population Laboratory Regarding Enrollment Projections – Sara Lazenby
- The annual APL enrollment report will be presented. The "Baseline Model", which is usually accurate to a couple percent, shows a slight increase in enrollment (by about 100 students) over the next five years.
F. Update on Energy Committee – Jill List
- The energy committee has started working on ideas for reducing energy consumption through changes in operation and behaviour, I'm interested in hearing how this is moving forward.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
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how much stock do you put in the enrollment projections? Were they not way off on the enrollment at Maywood this year????
It was such an anomaly, because Madison dramatically changed its open enrollment policy (allowing more students to leave the Madison district and enroll in other districts). MG got a bunch of Madison open enrollment students at Maywood, something no one can accurately predict before the change in Madison policy.
putting that aside they were off by at least 20-25 MG students if I remember correctly...
Yes, there was a significant uptick in the number of K students in Monona beyond the projections. But an error that large is rare in the projections. The number of students starting kindergarten at Maywood has historically shown significant variation of 10-15 students from year to year. The total its a smaller number so we expect the most statistical fluxuation.
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