SERVICES
The Management Solution can provide you with a wide range of services. These include:
Provide a comprehensive business management solution – We can create a complete custom package of services to address all of your business, financial, and asset management needs.
Analysis of district expenditures – We can analyze spending patterns and help you to better understand district cash flow. This better understanding will help you improve the timing of purchases as well as prevent unexpected spending freezes. Our team can also analyze spending in maintenance and technology areas to see if the district has an appropriate strategy in place. Overall this will help district administrators, your School Committee, and community better understand where district resources are being used.
Facilitate data-based decision making – We can help you apply the appropriate data and analyses to your decision making process. As a result you can be certain that your valuable resources are being deployed in a way that will give maximum benefit to your students.
Grant management – Our team will help ensure that the grant programs are funded adequately to meet the plans that accompanied their original applications. We can help to ensure that grants are supporting programs and not supplanting them. Also, we can help ensure that you do not miss out on valuable funding opportunities by making sure that they are applied for at the proper time. Finally, we can file all of the required financial reports back to the appropriate funding agencies.
Management of special revenue funds – Our experts can make sure that your special revenue funds are self supporting, and that they are used in accordance with all Massachusetts Department of Revenue requirements for revolving accounts.
Preparation for audits – We ensure that grant, revolving accounts, bids, quotes, purchasing, payroll records are all accurate and adequately maintained.
Remediation of audit findings – We will develop action plans for your district to address any findings that may have occurred on your annual financial audit. Additionally we can implement new systems to address deficits that were identified.
Preparation of reports – These can include: monthly updates on the budget/grants/revolving accounts/special revenue funds; end-of-year pupil and financial report for the Massachusetts Department of Education; final financial reports for grants; or even annual reports if required by local ordinances.
Review the cost effectiveness of all direct and non-direct educational programs – Our team can review district data and determine the impact of class size, support services (including therapies, or the benefits of creating in-district programs versus out of district placements). Professional development offerings (one time opportunities versus train the trainer, etc.). As well as non direct items such as: the school lunch program, transportation analysis, maintenance strategies (preventative versus reactive).
Assist in the financial management of building projects – If you are planning a building project, or you are already involved in one, we can help you with the all of the complexities of the financial management. We can help you develop a plan for a new project including the enrollment projections needed for an application. We can also work with school building committees and financial advisors, as well as maintain the records required by the Massachusetts School Building Authority for auditing.
Purchasing systems – The Management Solution can help you with bids, requests for proposals, specifications, quotes, and cooperative purchasing. We can also coordinate efforts with community schools to increase purchasing power and result in cost savings. This is done to maximize your buying power while staying with in the requirements of all Massachusetts procurement laws.
Analysis of the financial impact of contract negotiations – Contract negotiations can be very complex and stressful. We can help you by running scenarios based on proposals made by negotiating parties. This will help you fully understand the financial ramifications of all negotiated items.
Conduct a search for a business manager – If you need a full-time business manager in the district we are able to assist you in locating suitable candidates. This includes: putting together a search committee, screening potential candidates, evaluating their credentials, and verifying references.
Develop inventory management system – We can set up processes to maximize the life of assets by adequately tracking what you have, as well as its age and condition. Also, we can create a system to assist the district in the tracking of textbooks to ensure that they are up-to-date and available in sufficient quantity to meet the needs of your students.
Professional development for district administrators – Our team of business professionals and experienced educators have extensive knowledge of all aspects of school business management and district administration. We can provide your district personnel with customized professional development opportunities to suit your requirements.
Web design and development – We can provide you a start to finish solution for all of your web needs. From the look and feel of your website, to navigation, ongoing maintenance and updates, all the way to user interface optimization, and secured database access. You will be able to provide the people in your community with all the highlights of what is happening in the district, a calendar of events, profiles of each of your schools, curriculum materials, homework information, as well as student work including both audio and video. We can even host your website for you and provide unlimited server space giving infinite possibilities to both you and your students.
We are certain that we can provide you with a complete package of services, large or small, that will meet the specific needs of your district.
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