March 7, 2018 at 1:00 PM - Special Population Committee Meeting

Discussion:  Meeting called to order at 3:02 p.m.

Discussion:  Steve Milliken gave an update. Meetings are being held to promote communication and transparency.
Briefly discussed a few legislative bills including, LB1052, LB998, and LB801.

Discussion:  Milliken reported that a clarification document will be sent soon Federal law does not allow them to provide provisional certification. Federal dollars cannot be used to reimburse for an intern, some State reimbursement may apply. New stipulations do not take affect until the 2019-2020 school year.

Discussion:  Steve Milliken gave an overview. Information is being gathered, RFP deadline is March 31st.
Concern was expressed for those in need of training, devices, etc. within low-incident areas.
Milliken assured the committee that the RFP will include capacity to meet the needs of smaller districts.

Discussion:  Committee discussed LB998. 6/2 vote to come out of legislative committee. It was noted the LB998 could help provide data and identify gaps. This bill may go to the floor on Friday, March 9th. Ludwig will forward a list of talking points to the ESU administrators.

Discussion:  Executive Director Ludwig reported that the Illini Cloud is interested in SRS. Ludwig has been meeting with them and Karen (KSB) to look at the possibility of creating a partnership (Interlocal Agreement). This could help expand the program, further development, and may be a source of revenue for ESUCC. It was noted that the Illini Cloud would like to have something in place by the end of Summer 2018. Ludwig will continue to move forward with these discussions.

Discussion:  Current participating each ESU pays a fee of $5,500 to fund the Special Education Project.

Discussion:  Purposed Increase of 5%:

2018-19	2019-20	Tier
$158	$166	<100
$410	$430	100-249
$817	$858	250-499
$2,453	$2,576	500-999
$3,271	$3,435	1000-1999
$4,089	$4,293	2000-3999
$8,175	$8,584	4000-17999

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• Added Prior Written Notice form to IEP
  • Districts may choose whether or not they want to use this new feature
  • PWN will print as a stand-alone form
• ADVISER/SRS Interoperability Project
  • Pilot will start this week
    • The following districts will help us pilot these new features:  Bruning-Davenport, Fairbury, Tri-County, Winnebago
  • Applied to demonstrate the new features at the upcoming AQuEST Conference
  • Will join NDE staff at ADVISER workdays at each ESU starting this week.
• Zend Framework 3 Conversion
  • Student Search screen is nearly complete
    • New design has been implemented
    • New screen will be ipad friendly
  • Next steps = Welcome Screens and Personnel Profile Page
• Print Standardization and Archiving
  • Over the years we have used multiple form printing methods.
    • Mike has streamlined this process so that we just have one printing method that will work on old and new forms alike
    • This eliminated the need to convert all of the old forms to Zend Framework, which would have been extremely time consuming.
  • We have started archiving old form PDFs so that our users will eventually be able to access any of their student’s old forms, even if they have moved out of the district.
    • Districts will be able to access any form that was created in their district.

Discussion:  Meeting adjourned at 4:03 p.m.