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Fiscal Navigation for Superintendents

Why This Workshop is Important

The responsibility for fiscal integrity, oversight, and the safety of school district money rests with the Board of Education, superintendent, and school business official. However, in reality, the superintendent has daily fiduciary oversight as both the representative of the Board of Education and the supervisor of the business administrators and business personnel.

The superintendent must understand what is happening, what is needed, and what can be done, to meet his/her administrative duties and solving the practical problems of control needed to maintain the fiscal health of his/her school district. The superintendent must act knowledgably so as not to leave the district open to mismanagement and potential fiscal instability.

The reputation of the superintendent and financial health of the school district can ride on good administrative fiscal decisions

Workshop Faculty

James Mills, Ph.D., Superintendent of Schools

Jim Mills is a veteran superintendent of schools with 34 years of school administrative experience, and an educational consultant in strategicfiscal long-range planning. He is an expert in long-range fiscal management and has developed software applications for trend analysis and budget predictions. Dr. Mills was Superintendent of Schools for 18 years in the Silver Creek Central Schools and Newfane Central Schools. Jim is Past President of the New York State Council of School Superintendents.

James M. Merrins, Ed.D., Executive Program Administrator

Jim Merrinsis Executive Program Administrator for Educational Support Services. He administers the Cycles of Success and Transition to Superintendency Program. He also administers and traches the highly successful Fiscal Navigation for Superintendents workshops across New York State. Dr. Merrins has 35 years experience in school administration, 16 years as a superintendent of schools, in Fredonia and Honeoye, New York. He is NYS certified as a School Business Administrator and has taught school finance and school law at SUNY colleges.

Workshop Co-Sponsors

Educational Support Services
James M. Merrins, Ed.D., Executive Program Administrator
and
SUNY Oswego
Department of Educational Administration
Suzanne Gilmour, Chair