FY25 February Program

Includes a Live Web Event on 02/11/2025 at 8:00 AM (EST)

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Learn alongside your MASBO colleagues strategies for running a meeting and building relationships with your regional legislators, how MASC informs and empowers your local leaders on school finance priorities, and DESE's understanding of the Governor's FY26 budget and new circuit breaker claiming system.

Michael MacMillan

School Business Manager

Monomoy Regional School District

Michael MacMillan is currently the Business Manager for the Monomoy Regional School District. He previously held the same position in the Cohasset Public Schools and Wareham Public Schools. Prior to entering school finance, Michael worked in school technology, national government finance and policy, and management consulting.

John W. Ferris

Retired

Hingham Public Schools

Anne Gulati

Assistant Superintendent of Finance and Operations

Needham Public Schools

Anne has been the Assistant Superintendent for Finance & Operations in Needham since 2002.  Prior to that, she was the Budget Manager for Albemarle County in Virginia.

Jason Lewis

Senator

Senator of the Fifth Middlesex District of Massachusetts

https://malegislature.gov/Legi...

Patrick Murphy

Business Manager

Cape Cod Collaborative

Former Barnstable School Committee, former MASC President

Devin Sheehan

Committee and Board Member

Holyoke School Committee and MASC

https://www.masc.org/people/de...

Tracy Novick

Field Director

Massachusetts Association of School Committees

https://www.masc.org/people/tracy-novick/

Robert O'Donnell

Director of School Finance

Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Rob O’Donnell is the Director of School Finance at DESE. The unit that he oversees is responsible for the Chapter 70 program, charter tuition and reimbursement calculations, school choice, the End of Year Report data collection, and the development of related data reports.

Jay Sullivan

Associate Commissioner, School Finance and District Support Center; MASBO Treasurer

Department of Elementary and Secondary Education

Jay Sullivan is the Associate Commissioner for District & School Finance in the Department of Elementary & Secondary Education. In this capacity, he directs the Offices of School Finance, School Business and Regional Governance. He also oversees a variety of financial programs, including Special Education Circuit Breaker, School accounting, End of Year Financial Reporting and Auditing, Transportation, as well as federal compliance issues relative to maintenance of effort requirements and the calculation of district’s indirect cost rates. Jay has worked for the Department for over 43 years as an auditor, administrator and business manager.

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