Bond Oversight Done Right –___ – -- Issue 60 • July 24, 2023
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August 19th Supporting New CBOC Members Through Training
Registration: EventBrite
Tickets: $50 Individual • $100 for 2-15 Group Tickets
Presentation Highlight: Rex Ridgeway
10:40 am • San Francisco USD Story Deep Dive into CBOC's Most Common Challenges with Rex Ridgeway. Panel and Q&A
Rex Ridgeway Former Interim CBOC Chair, SFUSD
The District’s CBOC members reached their term limits in August 2018. As a result of the efforts of a group of citizens, including Rex Ridgeway, a new CBOC was appointed by the District in May 2021. Rex was appointed to the new CBOC and served as Vice Chair and Interim Chair. He provided leadership to challenge illegal bond expenditures successfully, changed the process for appointing CBOC members, drafted bylaws to make the CBOC independent, submitted to the public the first annual report since 2019, reviewed prior audits for fiscal years 2020 and 2021, and supported revitalizing the CBOC as an effective bond oversight committee.
Panel Discussion and Questions & Answers on:
  • Matters governing CBOC independence
  • Selection of CBOC members
  • CBOC bylaws
  • Interaction with staff of the school district's bond program
  • The performance audit and financial audit
  • Establishing sub-committees
  • School site visits by members of CBOC 
  • New member training 
  • CBOC's annual reports to the public
  • The Website - postings & recordings of CBOC meetings

CABOC Conference
Supporting New CBOC Members Through Training
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August 19, 2023 • Saturday • 10am-1pm

• • • Agenda • • •

■ 9:30 am • Registration

■ 10.00 am • Welcome. Carolyn Castillo, CABOC President

■ 10.05 am • Zoom Orientation

■ 10:10 am • KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Tahir Ahad and Q & A.   
  “Review of Relevant Data for Effective Bond Oversight”

■ 10:40 am • Deep Dive into CBOC's Most Common Challenges, the San Francisco Unified School District Story. Q&A with Panel: • Greg Chopskie • Todd Collins • Laurance Lee • Rex Ridgeway
Panel Discussion and Questions & Answers on:
  • Matters governing CBOC Independence
  • Selection of CBOC members
  • CBOC By-Laws
  • Interaction with Staff of the School District's Bond Program
  • The Performance Audit and Financial Audit
  • Establishing Sub-Committees
  • School Site Visits by members of CBOC 
  • New member Training 
  • CBOC's Annual Reports to the Public
  • The Website - Postings & Recordings of CBOC Meetings

■ 11:40 am • New CABOC Members   
_ Ask the experts, a panel with four veteran CBOC members, Q&A.

■ 12:35 pm • Bond Oversight Committee Preview of CABOC’s New Academy   of 25 Training Online Courses

■ 12:45 pm • “Why CBOCs are Important” Presented by Jack Weir

■ 12:55 pm • Conference Evaluation

■ 1:00 pm • Adjourn

Registration: EventBrite
Tickets: $50 Individual • $100 for 2-15 Group Tickets
S A V E • T H E • D A T E
October 14, 2023 • 10am - 1pm
3rd Annual Statewide Virtual Conference
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