Keynote

Din Jenkins, Founder

Businesses recognize the many benefits of fostering collaboration and teamwork across departments- better products and services, reduction in redundancy, greater innovation, and improved employee morale, to name a few. Municipalities have been slower to adopt this practice but stand to benefit just as much as businesses- especially with the roll out of ARPA funding. This seminar will cover the key elements necessary to build a culture of collaboration across departments, as well as how to get your employees on-board.

Katie Gilfeather, LICSW, CEAP
Account Manager and EAP Clinician

Roofing in New England is always an evolving practice of working to keep your buildings tight and dry during some of the worst weather shifts imaginable. This session will review evaluating the longevity of your roofing system and how you can stretch the life cycle of one of the most costly components of your building envelope. With the current cost of construction, supply chain issues, and lack of public funding this is more important now more than ever to know and understand the pros and cons of any decisions you make.

Greg Diamond
Field Advisor

Learn about the wide variety of goods and services available from OSD Statewide Contracts to support your IT and building security projects.

Tim Kennedy
Senior Manager with the Strategic Sourcing Services

This presentation includes a review of when using proprietary and/or sole source-related specifications are appropriate in construction contracts. Included also is a discussion of specification writing to ensure your bids are fair and competitive and your contracts are less prone to disputes and change orders.

Neil Cohen
Director of the Regulatory and Compliance Division

Learn how you can tie decarbonization/electrification projects and incentives into larger infrastructure renewal projects. How does this impact climate goals? How can you make the most of ESSER/ARPA/IRA funds?

Kasey Boxleitner
Business Development Manager

Morgan Perras
Energy Services Account Executive

Patrick O'Leary
Services Account Manager

Artificial turf has been installed on athletic fields throughout New England since the early 2000s. This presentation will focus on synthetic turf system options, including infill material and shock pads, as well as site constraints, budgetary issues and maintenance strategies. The presenter will also cover recent concerns regarding the health, safety and environmental risks of synthetic turf.

Bree D. Sullivan
Chief Civil Engineer

Ask any group of employees, and they’ll say “We just don’t get enough feedback. We only get feedback when there’s a problem.” If that’s the case, then managers are missing motivational opportunities, while conditioning their staff to cringe whenever the manager wants to “talk”. This seminar will explore why managers have to deliver performance feedback, the power of positive feedback, how to form feedback habits, and how to deliver constructive feedback without triggering defensiveness.

Allan Marsh, Account Executive

Come spend some time with Jack McCarthy and have a chance to connect, discuss, and hear updates and programs coming down the pipeline from MSBA.

Jack McCarthy, Executive Director

Learn how the use of various Statewide Contracts can make the management and operation of your facilities easier, economical, and more effective.

Kelly Thompson Clark, Strategic Sourcing Manager

This presentation will discuss the Chapter 30B option to create and/or use preexisting cooperative or contracts to save time and money for your jurisdiction through group purchasing and procurement efficiencies.

Neil Cohen, Director of the Regulatory and Compliance Division

We'll discuss the terminology of Heat Pumps and the different types of Heat Pump equipment. Better understand the applications for Heat Pumps in K-12, and better understand the Electrification opportunities for the near future. Also discuss best practices for installation and what steps can lead to a school holding the longest possible warranty for their equipment.

Chris Ouellette, HVAC Business Development Manager - Northeast Region

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 has radically changed the affordability and accessibility of clean energy solutions for municipalities. Over the next decade, the federal government is set to provide support for schools across the country to embrace ground source heat pumps, solar energy systems, and energy storage. Come learn about these new incentives and how they can unlock solutions for your district that will reduce operating costs, expand access to cooling, provide clean heat, and increase community resilience.

Sara Ross, Co-founder

Tracey A. Ogden, Principal

Chris Pimentel, Senior Account Executive

Learn the latest developments in the employment discrimination arena. This training will provide critical updates on the latest developments. The interactive session will address common trends at the MCAD and will offer guidance on how to avoid being a respondent to an MCAD claim and what to expect if you become one. An understanding of the basic principles of discrimination is required.

Regina Ryan, Attorney and Founder

With the unfortunate frequency of school shootings these days, school districts may become numb to keeping school security at the top of our priority list.  Pamela Perini, PSP, will share her expertise with the audience, and provide a view of a number of critical Security Program points. She will explain risk, the need to be prepared without Institutionalizing your facility, and the best practices to help ensure that we are implementing strategies to minimize loss during an incident, while still providing a warm and inviting 21^st Century learning environment.

Pamela Perini, PSP, Principal Security Consultant and Owner

While large renovation and construction are a drawn out, complex and expensive endeavor, playground development is a far more exciting way to bring staff, students and families together to return unused space to students, and the school community. Where any given school is likely surrounded by a sea of grass and asphalt, can't we reimagine that space as one where any and all students could easily spend a few active hours?

Andrew O’Leary, Assistant Superintendent of Finance and Operations

John P. LaRue, Certified Playground Safety Inspector

People will learn how to leverage their free membership in the MHEC, how to use their contracts, save money and time, and about their new FREE e-procurement tool, i-buy.

Janet Garabedian, Business Development Manager

Christopher Raymond, Director of Contracts and Operations

This session will explore the benefits of integrating detailed, employee payroll data within school financial software. Topics will include "drill down" reporting, integrated ledger and budget to actual reporting, and future budget preparation and forecasting tools.

Frank Natale, CEO

Ted Cormier, Director of Client Services

Come here updates about new opportunities, grants and programs that are happening in communities all throughout MA so we can reach our Carbon Reduction goals. Learn about leveraging MassEnergy Insight? Do you know what that is? Do you know it is a free? This session will be interactive and informative.

Joanne Bissetta, Director

Whitney Brougher, Energy Analyst

Sean McGloin, Municipal Energy Efficiency Representative