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MFAA 2009 FALL CONFERENCE
Leadership Training and Budget Forecasting
SEPTEMBER 16, 17, 18 (2009) at the
Sea Crest Ocean Front Resort and Conference Center
North Falmouth, MA 02556
1-800-225-3110 or visit http://www.seacrest-resort.com
Wednesday Sept. 16
12:00 PM to 4:30 PM: Conference Set-up & Registration
12:30 PM to 4:30 PM Member Outreach and Development
Committee’s Networking Opportunity
4:30 PM to 5:30 PM President’s Welcome reception in the MFAA
Hospitality Suite
6:00 PM to 8:30 PM Welcome Dinner @ Sea Crest Restaurant
Thursday Sept. 17
8:30 AM to 9:00 AM Continental breakfast
9:00 AM Welcome address from MFAA President
9:00 AM to 11:30 AM: OSD Training on use of State contracts
and Comm-PASS
Barbara Miller, Director of Assurance, Training and Outreach
11:30AM to 12:30 PM Monthly meeting items with round table
discussion at the Sea Crest Restaurant
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM KEYNOTE SPEAKER/TRAINER
Charles “Chuck” Levine
“Is it a Training Thing?”
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM open discussion with members, speakers,
and guests in the MFAA Hospitality Suite
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM MFAA Member & Spouse Reception
@ the Sea Crest Lounge
6:00 PM Banquet transportation departs for restaurant
6:30 PM to 9:00 PM Banquet dinner Daniel Webster Inn
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Friday Sept.18
9:00 AM to 12:00 PM MSBA presentation with
Katherine Craven, Executive Director
12:00 PM to 1:00PM Lunch at the Seacrest
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM: closing roundtable/review Q&A for
members with closing remarks from the MFAA President.
Meeting adjourned.
MFAA Fall Conference 2008 Speaker Bios:
Barbara Miller
Director of Assurance, Training and Outreach
Massachusetts Operational Service Division (OSD)
OSD creates Statewide Contracts that are eligible for use by all public entities free of charge. Most
contracts can be utilized without going out to bid and provide cost savings for towns and municipalities.
Barbara provides trainings and workshops to review statewide contracts and most importantly a “How to
Use Statewide Contracts and Comm-PASS”.
Dr. Charles “Chuck” Levine
Instructional Design Associates, President
Dr. Levine has had over thirty years of experience as a trainer, course developer and consultant. He has a
Doctorate in Instructional Design from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.; a
Master's in Education and a B.S in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University in Boston,
Massachusetts.
At Raytheon Data Systems Dr. Levine had responsibilities for sales, product knowledge and technical
training for all product lines within the Raytheon Data Systems Training Center. When Raytheon closed
the Data Systems Division, Chuck taught outplacement classes and coordinated the outplacement effort
for the 3000 employees in the division. At Honeywell Chuck lead the team that implemented the Field
Engineering Distance Learning System and had responsibility for both system management and
instructional development. He established one of the first distance learning systems utilizing both video
and audio instructional media. At Westinghouse he had the responsibility for developing self-instructional
programs in content areas ranging from Welding to Ambulance Attendant.
Dr. Levine has had a long association with the Technical Instructors' at The University of Wisconsin, Eau
Claire, where he teaches in their public seminar series and conducts in-house training programs such as
Managing the Training Function, Instructional Design and Evaluation Techniques. He also has taught
courses such as Introduction to Computers and Introduction to Data Communication in the Evening
Division at Stonehill College in Easton, MA, and taught train-the-trainer and ISO9000 seminars at
Bryant College in Smithfield, RI. Chuck has also presented at many national Training and ASTD
Conferences on the subject of On The Job Training and Instructional Design. Chuck also holds a State of
Massachusetts Secondary Science and Math Teaching Certification
In 1986 Chuck formed Instructional Design Associates, a consulting and course development company
specializing in instructor training, working with companies re-engineering their training departments and
helping companies adapt to significant culture or product changes.
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Katherine P. Craven
Executive Director, Massachusetts School Building Authority
Katherine P. Craven was appointed as the first Executive Director of the Massachusetts School Building
Authority by State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill in November, 2004. In this role, Katherine has built a new
state agency responsible for the management, financing and auditing of not only the $11B in debt to
which the Commonwealth is committed for over 1150 state-financed local school construction projects,
but also for the largest scale revision since 1948 of the rules and regulations governing the state's role in
local school construction. In the first five years of its creation, the School Building Authority under
Katherine's management will finance over $5B for 428 projects formerly waiting years for funding under
the old program. Funded by 1 penny of state sales tax receipts, the Authority will continue reimbursing
communities hundreds of millions of dollars a year for another 728 projects currently receiving long-term
debt service assistance. Under Katherine's leadership, the Authority has developed a plan to eliminate an
inherited backlog of over 800 audits of school construction projects, and to implement a reformed,
competitive, needs-based state school construction grant program emphasizing increased pre-design
planning and construction oversight and auditing for local school construction. These reforms will be
aimed at protecting the state investment of $2.5B for local school construction between 2008 and 2012
Prior to her work at the Authority, Ms. Craven served as Director of Policy for the Massachusetts House
of Representatives. In this capacity, she provided counsel to the Speaker and members of the House on
major legislative initiatives, including billions of dollars of operating and capital budgets of the
Commonwealth, economic development initiatives, municipal relief measures, health care financing, and
legislation reforming school building assistance and special education. Katherine has assisted in the
drafting of 10 state budgets and hundreds of supplemental and capital appropriations bills appropriating
billions of dollars through thousands of line items. Prior to assuming this role, she served as deputy
budget director for the House Committee on Ways and Means, the legislative committee charged with
analysis of over 5,000 pieces of legislation with a fiscal impact, including all budget and tax matters.
Katherine has lectured on the intricacies of the state budget at the Kennedy School of Government at
Harvard University and the Donahue Institute of the University of Massachusetts. Katherine serves on
the board of directors of MassDevelopment, the Governor's Commission on Mental Retardation, the
board of directors of the Massachusetts Association for Mental Health, an advisory board member for the
Emerging Technology Fund, and is a member of the Board of Incorporators for Partners Healthcare, Inc.
In September 2007, Katherine was named Deputy Treasurer by Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill and is
appointed to oversee the Treasury's $44B Cash Management department.
A graduate of Harvard College and Boston Latin School, Katherine resides in Chestnut Hill with her
husband, Dr. Jim Kryzanski, and four children, Delia, Joseph, James, and John.
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