The end of year event is a time to celebrate all of our hard work over the past year – and a time to say MAHALO to all the staff who help make ESD successful! Below are highlights on the keys to our success, our major accomplishments over the past year and what we’re looking forward to this coming year.

-Tim

The Keys to Our Success

Recipe for Success: The Three R’s

  • Relationships – Building and maintaining positive relationships with our districts
  • Relevance – Providing services that our districts need most
  • Resources – Using all the resources at our disposal and building upon those resources

Strategic Decisions

The following decisions have contributed to healthy revenue growth, resulting in our total revenue being about 5 million higher now than in 2008 just before the recession hit:

  • Less reliance on Federal $
    o25% of budget then vs. 12% now
  • Less reliance on soft funding (grants)
    18.1% of total revenue in 08-09 under 5% now
    NW Service Academy and Safe Schools
  • Concerted effort to change mix of programs to provide more financial stability should another recession occur
  • Effort to provide more direct services to schools through fee for service and state funding formulas

A Year of Growth & Change

Early Learning Growth

  • New name! Early Care and Education
  • Funded for more than 400 ECEAP slots
  • Solid partnership with DEL
  • Outside of the box thinking:
    –Securing building space important to our future
    –Began transporting ECEAP students
  • THRIVE Washington board member

pdEnroller

  • Two-year project to build pdEnroller completed and launched!
  • A web-based, mobile friendly system for event registration, payment, clock hour approval and reporting
  • Lots of interest to purchase pdEnroller from ESDs, OSPI and others
  • Provide professional development on a single platform

Facilities

  • Building purchases fueled by early learning and special services
  • ESD now owns over $22 million in assets; 240 thousand square feet.
  • In just 13 months we have:
    –Purchased and remodeled Ogden Business Park, Hough, Longview QUEST property; and Minnehaha; leasing ParkCrest

Quest Academy

  • A new partnership with Cowlitz County Superintendents
  • An academy for students with behavior challenges
  • Opens in November thanks to hard work of
    staff in:
    –Specialized Student Services (developed the program)
    –Facilities staff (remodeling the Longview building)
    –HR (recruited, interviewed and hired all staff)
    –PR/Communications (branded the program)

Agency Update: Looking forward

ESD 112 Budget

  • Growth brings us to highest expenditures in ESD history!
  • Expenditures budgeted for 2016-17 = $62,701,397
  • Total Enterprise budgeted revenue = $77.8 million
  • Significant growth in:
    – Special Education
    – Alternative Learning Experience
    – Transportation
    – CSG Services

2016-17 Compensation: It’s good news!

  • Proposal impacts 534 employees
  • 1.8% cost of living raise for classified and certificated staff
  • Step increases for all eligible staff
  • Average 4.5 % increase in employee compensation in the coming year
  • Recommendation to Board on June 30
  • Effective September 1 – pending approval

Agency Restructure

  • New Assistant Superintendent for Teaching and Learning – Mike Nerland
  • 3 new Executive Directors
  • Improved Collaboration

Main Campus Facility Improvements

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  • Controlled Access System – mid July
  • Card entry – New cards issued for all Vancouver campus employees or at cabinet member discretion
  • Working on visitor protocols
  • Locked entrances
  • Upgrades to technology, audio systems in the conference rooms

Download Tim’s complete Powerpoint presentation from the End of Year event as a PDF here.