Chris started in the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education over 45 years ago in the School Building Assistance Program working on construction related issues as well as regional organizational issues.  Chris worked in the School Finance area during the early years of the educational reform law in 1993 on the new Chapter 70 formula and the revised financial chart of accounts.  From 1999 to 2004 she served as the director of the School Building Assistance Program before becoming Director of Regional Governance.  Chris retired in 2016 but has  continued to work in the Office of Regional Governance  as a consultant, focusing primarily on issues relating to the formation and expansion of regional school districts, the updating of existing regional agreements and issues relating to regional budgeting and finance.