Mark your calendars and plan to attend the 70th PASBO Annual Conference
March 11 – 14. 2025 | Hershey Lodge
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Join us for the PASBO Facilities, Transportation & Safety Conference
October 24 – 25, 2024
Seven Springs Mountain Resort
This year’s conference will be held at Seven Springs Mountain Resort on Thursday, October 24 and Friday, October 25. We have combined three critical areas in school business to provide greater content and networking opportunities.
- School facility management affects teaching and learning, student and staff health, day-to-day building operation, and the long-range fiscal health of the entire education organization. Three specialized facilities tracks will provide targeted programming for facilities managers/directors, custodial supervisors/trainers and Brightly Software, Inc. product users.
- Transporting students to and from school is a critical mission. The transportation track will provide knowledge and tools to increase safety, maximize efficiencies, assist with reporting requirements and respond to emerging issues.
- School safety is an increasingly growing concern in today’s world.
Join us a day early, October 23, and take advantage of an in-person Construction Project Management Symposium. The symposium is an ideal program for facilities directors, business managers/CFOs and superintendents who are thinking about or in the planning phases of a construction project. Thi workshop require a separate fee and registration.
NETWORKING is KING!
Get to know your counterparts from across the state while enjoying lively discussions during the educational sessions and networking breaks.
Payroll Bootcamp
October 31, 2024 | 8:00 am – 4:00 pm
In Person at IU12
8:00-8:30 am Registration, continental breakfast, networking
8:30-9:45 am Welcome, logistics, and Session #1
9:45-10:45 am Session #2
10:45-11:00 am Stretch break
11:00-11:45 pm Lunch
11:45 am-12:45 pm Session #3
12:45-1:45 pm Session #4
1:45-2:00 pm Stretch break
2:00-3:00 pm Session #5
3:00-4:00 pm Session #6
Agenda topics:
- Session #1
- The calendar (payroll due dates – quarterly, taxes, yearly, etc.)
- Summer pays and accruals
- Session #2
- What to look for in school payroll (templates)
- Knowing your CBAs
- Session #3
- Calculations for payroll
- Session #4
- Day calcs
- Session #5
- Leaves/Sabbaticals & Benefits
- Session #6
PSERS/VOYA
CFO Bootcamp
November 6 – 7, 2024
In-Person | PASBO Headquarters
A purposeful intense program design of overarching business office functions. Designed for business and assistant business managers (target group first three years), want-to-be business managers, business office staff specialists looking to grow and learn.
SPEAKERS
Tim Shrom, Ph.D., PCSBA, Director of Research, PASBO
Dale Kirsch, Member Advisor, PASBO
Transportation Bootcamp
November 9, 2024 | 8:30 am – 3:00 pm
In Person – PASBO Headquarters
The program will cover beginner topics in education transportation that are not found when you try to look up the information yourself. Topics include daily operations, audit requirements, subsidies, forms & deadlines.
SPEAKERS
Jen Grove, PCSBO, Director of Transportation, York Suburban SD David Lutz, PCSBO, PCSTP, Director of Transportation, Cocalico SD Dale Kirsch, Member Advisor, PASBO
Elements courses are a broad overview of a School Business area offered at least one time during the year and conducted in a format much like a college course with class time, assignments, quizzes, etc. The typical Elements courses are online, 4 week asynchronous courses with 1 unit per week. Students will complete 1 quiz and 2-3 discussion questions per unit. Students will also have the opportunity to join 3 calls with the instructor, including the initial kick off call. The in-person courses are run as a 1 day workshop where the concepts are reviewed and the discussions happen in person, with the quizzes being taken online after the in-person portion. For the in-person courses, all 4 units are covered in 1 day. The in-person courses are labeled in the event title.
Course Title | Instructor | Start Date | End Date | Topics Covered | PASBO General Certification | PASBO Specialty Certifications | CPE |
The Pennsylvania School Funding Model: Local and State Revenues | Sidney M. Clark, PCSBA, Business Manager/Board Secretary, Shanksville-Stonycreek SD | 10/21/24 | 11/17/24 |
| 4 | None | 6 |
Elements of Human Resources | Robert Reger, PCSBA, Director of Human Resources, Hempfield Area SD | 10/28/24 | 11/24/24 |
| 4 | Facilties (4) Transportation (4) Payroll (4) | 6 |
Elements of Payroll Administration | Robert Reger, PCSBA, Director of Human Resources, Hempfield Area SD | 11/4/24 | 12/1/24 |
| 4 | Payroll (4) | 6 |
Elements of Leadership | Randy S. Williams, Sr., PCSBA, Director of Transportation, Wilson SD | 11/12/24 | 12/8/24 |
| 4 | Facilties (4) Transportation (4) Payroll (4) | 6 |
Elements of Facility Management | Randall Buffington, PCSBA, Director of Operations, Southern York County SD | 11/18/24 | 12/15/24 |
| 4 | Facilties (4) | 6 |
Effective Supervision: Skills for Supervising Support Staff | Randy S. Williams, Sr., PCSBA, Director of Transportation, Wilson SD | 11/25/24 | 12/22/24 |
| 4 | None | 6 |
Elements of Budgeting & Planning | Sidney M. Clark, PCSBA, Business Manager/Board Secretary, Shanksville-Stonycreek SD | 1/13/25 | 2/9/25 |
| 4 | Facilties (4) Transportation (4) | 6 |
Elements of Food Service | 1/21/25 | 2/16/25 |
| 4 | None | 6 | |
Elements of Communications | Samuel J. Kirk, Jr., PCSBA, Director of Finance and Operations, Armstrong SD | 1/27/25 | 2/23/25 |
| 4 | None | 6 |
Elements of School Law (IN PERSON PRE-CON) | 3/11/25 |
| 4 | Payroll (4) | 6 | ||
Elements of Purchasing (IN PERSON PRE-CON) | 3/11/25 |
| 4 | Facilties (4) Transportation (4) | 6 | ||
Elements of Technology | Colleen Yenser, PCSBO, PMP, CETL, ITIL, Assistant Director of Technology, Lancaster, SD | 3/24/25 | 4/20/25 |
| 4 | None | 6 |
Advanced Purchasing Techniques | Chris Berdnik, PCSBA, Chief Financial Officer, Pennsbury SD | 3/31/25 | 4/27/25 |
| 4 | None | 6 |
School Bus Safety and Operations | Randy S. Williams, Sr., PCSBA, Director of Transportation, Wilson SD | 4/7/25 | 5/4/25 |
| 4 | Transportation (4) | 6 |
Elements of Payroll Administration (IN PERSON) | Susan Schechter, Supervisor of Payroll, Bucks County IU 22; Sidney M. Clark, PCSBA, Business Manager/Board Secretary, Shanksville-Stonycreek SD | 4/10/25 |
| 4 | Payroll (4) | 6 | |
Advanced Risk Management | Chris Berdnik, PCSBA, Chief Financial Officer, Pennsbury SD | 4/14/25 | 5/11/25 |
| 4 | None | 6 |
Elements of School Finance | Deana Turner, Business Administrator, Apollo Ridge SD | 4/21/25 | 5/18/25 |
| 4 | None | 6 |
Elements of Facility Management (IN PERSON) | Randall Buffington, PCSBA, Director of Operations, Southern York County SD; Mark Czapp, Director of Business Operations, Spring Grove Area SD | 4/30/25 |
| 4 | Facilties (4) | 6 | |
Elements of Transportation (IN PERSON) | Randy S. Williams, Sr., PCSBA, Director of Transportation, Wilson SD; David Lutz, PCSBO, PCSTP, Director of Transportation, Cocalico SD | 5/1/25 |
| 4 | Transportation (4) | 6 |
Construction Project Management Symposium
October 23, 2024| 9:15am – 5:15pm
WORKSHOP: Seven Springs, PA
The PASBO Facilities Committee has developed a Construction Project Management Guide to assist LEA professionals understand the process. This comprehensive symposium will lead you through the construction project cycle and will provide in-depth discussions of the seven project phases: Concept, Schematic Design, Design Development, Contract Documents, Bidding Phase, Construction and Close Out.
This course will teach you about project scalability, which will allow you to apply its concepts from minor renovations to full scale renovation or construction. Participating LEA design team members will understand their roles and responsibilities and those of design professionals, jurisdiction authority, contractors, and testing agencies.
The Construction Project Management Guide will be provided as part of the Symposium so you may share these concepts with your LEA that can be used on future projects.
Topics include:
- Construction Project Cycle
- LEA Construction Design Team
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Attainment of Project Expectations
SPEAKERS:
Randall Buffington, PCSBA, Director of Operations, Southern York County School District William T. Meiser, PCSBO, PCSFM, Director of Operations, Middletown Area School District Michael Shelgren, PCSBS, Director of Facilities, Owen J. Roberts School District
CREDITS:
PASBO General Certification: 4 CEUs
PA Certified School Facilities Professional (PCSFP): 4 CEUs
CPE Credit for CPAs: 6.5 CPE in Specialized Knowledge
COSTS:
🚀 Early Bird (October 9): PASBO Member $125 / Non-member $185
🚀 After October 9: PASBO Member $130 / Non-member $190
This year, Governor Shapiro, along with the state legislature, approved a $476 billion state budget.
Join PASBO staff as we help breakdown the basics of the State Budget.
These events are free and for PASBO members only. Registration closes at 9 am the day prior to each webcast.
Please note, this is not a 1-registration series. You must register for each event you want to attend.
There are no Series scheduled at this time.
Please note: Online courses are for the registrant only. If additional staff wish to participate, a separate registration is necessary.