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ISAE Shark Tank: Back by Popular Demand
Turn your organization’s innovative, forward-thinking product, project, or service into a chance to attend an ASAE 2018 event—for free! Enter for a chance to convince ISAE’s Sharks—titans of the Association—that your successful product, project, or service is worthy of the investment.
The three ISAEntreprenuers who hook our Sharks with their applications will swim up to the next level and pitch their products, projects, or services live and in person at the ISAE 2017 September Luncheon. Only one will leave as the ISAEntrepreneuer of the Year and with a complimentary registration to ASAE’s 2018 Annual Meeting & Expo in Chicago, Illinois or ASAE’s 2018 Great Ideas Conference in Colorado Springs, Colorado (value up to $1000).
Click here for more information and to get signed up.

Registration Open for August Luncheon
Registrations is now open for the 2017 August Luncheon, Ways to Take Boring Out of Your Meetings. This luncheon is being presented by Dana Saal, CMP, CAE and will be held on Monday, August 28, 2017 at 11:30am at the Memorial Center for Learning & Innovation in Springfield, IL. Click here to learn more and register today! Bonus: register by August 24th and SAVE!

USE School Funding Roll Call Estimate
The remaining budget issue to be resolved in the next few weeks involves the school funding trigger language in Public Act 100-0021 (Senate Bill 6) at page 433, which states that a total of $6.7 billion is “appropriated to the Illinois State Board of Education for Evidence-Based Funding, provided for in Section 18-8.15 of the School Code.”
Currently, there is no Section 18-8.15 in the Illinois School Code, 105 ILCS 5.
Senate Bill 1 remains the closest school funding bill to the finish line but is mired in the politics of Chicago vs. everywhere else. Regardless of what bill makes it to the Governor, a school funding vote is more politically complicated than the recent budget votes. If the legislation is not an agreed bill between the parties, the Senate has enough Democratic votes but there will have to be cross party voting in the House with some Democrats voting ‘no’ and some Republicans voting ‘yes’.
School Funding Trigger Explained
Currently, there is no Section 18-8.15 of the School Code in the Illinois statutes so it appears that a Section 18-8.15 of the School Code involving “evidence-based funding” would need to go into effect through legislation before payments could be made to school districts for personal services, operational costs, and administrative costs.
The school funding trigger language in Senate Bill 6 does not appear to impact any other appropriations or budget bills, and it remains in effect once it becomes law. With the budget bill vetoes being overridden, the $6.7 billion that is “appropriated to the Illinois State Board of Education for Evidence-Based Funding, provided for in Section 18-8.15 of the School Code” would continue to be appropriated without an ability to spend the appropriation until there is “Evidence-Based Funding, provided for in Section 18-8.15 of the School Code.”
Senate Bill 6 does not define “evidence-based funding” for purposes of the appropriation other than to direct the ISBE and Comptroller to Section 18-8.15 of the School Code. Either way, the term has been regularly used during school funding negotiations for several years and the ISBE has a summary of various funding proposals (https://www.isbe.net/Pages/Education-Funding-Proposals.aspx).
Evidence-Based Funding Legislation
There are four pieces of legislation that add a Section 18-8.15 to the School Code and each involve “evidence-based funding”; however, only one is currently in a position to be sent to the Governor immediately:
- Senate Bill 1 (Manar-D) passed both chambers but held in the Senate on Motion to Reconsider;
- Senate Bill 1124, Senate Amendment #3 (Barickman-R) Senate Third Reading with amendment not yet adopted;
- House Bill 2808 (Davis-D) House Second Reading;
- House Bill 4069 (Pritchard-R) House Appropriations-Education Committee
ASAE’s Innovation Program accepting applications – deadline 10/1/2017
ISAE would like to extend a welcome to our newest members:
Joe Alsup, CliftonLarsonAllen LLP
Sam Cigelnik, CliftonLarsonAllen LLP
Rusty Gibson, CliftonLarsonAllen LLP
Kyla Greenhoe, CliftonLarsonAllen LLP
Brian Oaks, The Bank of Springfield Center
Tins Novakovich, Eagle Ridge Resort
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