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UERS Webinar - Expenditure Limitation Reports (Part II) Coming on May 22, 2012: Our Office will be holding the second in a two-part series of live online webinars on completing annual expenditure limitation reports (AELR) for counties, cities, and towns. In this presentation, we will provide detailed information about the reporting requirements for the “Part II” form of the AELR. Use the link on the right to complete the required registration for this event. A recording of the first webinar covering the Reconciliation and Part I is available under both links to “Other webinars” to the right.
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Santa Cruz Valley Union High School District In fiscal year 2010, Santa Cruz Valley Union High School District’s student achievement was far below both the peer districts’ and state averages, and its operational efficiencies were mixed with some costs higher and some costs lower than peer districts’. The District’s administrative costs were much higher than peer districts’, in part because of a sudden drop in student enrollment, but also because it paid a certified public accounting firm to help correct poor business practices previously cited by its independent financial auditors. The District’s plant operations and student transportation program both functioned in a reasonably efficient manner, but its food service per-meal costs were much higher than peer districts’ because the District employed more food service staff. Further, since fiscal year 2005, the District has shifted spending from the classroom to other operational areas, primarily administration and instructional support services.
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Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System—Coordination of Benefits AHCCCS has established various processes for identifying members with other health insurance, helping to ensure that other responsible parties first pay for a member's medical costs, and/or recovering monies from other liable parties. However, AHCCCS can implement additional oversight procedures and use federal data to further help ensure it pays for medical costs only after other responsible parties have first paid their share. Further, AHCCCS should establish an additional oversight procedure of its post-payment recovery contractor, document decisions to accept less than the recommended settlement amount, and seek additional data-sharing agreements to enhance its recoveries.
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Department of Economic Security—Division of Children, Youth and Families—Child Protective Services—In-Home Services Program The Division's in-home services program provides voluntary, time-limited services—up to 120 days—to help stabilize, strengthen, and preserve families. Despite providing a wide array of services to families, the impact of the Division's in-home services program is mixed. The Division can strengthen this program by taking steps to further support in-home services contractors' use of evidence-based practices, which research has shown to be effective. These steps include communicating its intent that services be evidence-based and making it a requirement in the next contract solicitation, developing well-defined criteria for identifying these practices, maintaining an updated list of these practices, and monitoring its contractors to ensure they are implementing the practices as designed.
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Arizona School District Spending (Classroom Dollars) Fiscal Year 2011 Between fiscal years 2001 and 2009, Arizona’s total operational spending per pupil increased 47 percent before decreasing 5 percent between fiscal years 2009 and 2011. Despite this overall increase, per-pupil spending in Arizona continues to trail the national average both in total and in the classroom, with the classroom dollar percentage reaching a record low 54.7 percent in fiscal year 2011. Each year since fiscal year 2004, districts have decreased the percentage of their resources they allocated to the classroom. Further, this shift in spending out of the classroom accelerated in fiscal years 2010 and 2011. Although factors outside a district’s control—such as district size, type, and location—can affect its efficiency, some districts operate efficiently and have lower costs despite these factors, while others do not.
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Flowing Wells Unified School District In fiscal year 2010, Flowing Wells Unified School District’s student achievement was significantly higher than peer districts’, and its operational efficiency was mixed. The District’s administration operated efficiently and with lower staffing levels than peer districts’, and its food service and student transportation programs operated reasonably well. However, the District’s plant operations costs were significantly higher than peer districts averaged because it employed more plant staff, paid higher salaries due to employee longevity, and used more electricity. Although the District operated in a reasonably efficient manner in most areas, it reduced classroom spending significantly in fiscal year 2010, shifting monies to nonclassroom areas—a trend dating back to fiscal year 2005.
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