To be fiscally prudent with precious taxpayer dollars, I co-founded and serve as President of an organization that serves school board members statewide--the Florida Coalition of School Board Members.
Soon we will be launching our nationwide platform, The American Coalition of School Board Members, so that we can assist board members nation-wide while saving them taxpayer dollars simultaneously.
With today's technologies and readily accessible open-sourced resources on the internet, we believe strongly that prudent, fiscally conservative school board members should leverage such technology to augment their professional training and development as one way to save taxpayer dollars.
A great example of such wise stewardship is this:
Every year Florida School Board Members must take a required ethics course. We at FCSBM have put together a FREE Ethics Taining Course utilizing readily available materials, already produced at taxpayer expense. We recently received an opinion from the state Ethics Commission that validates our training program as one that meets the state requirement.
So we have amalgamated the program and we invite any school board member in the state to take this training for FREE! If every Florida school board member took advantage of this opportunity, state taxpayers would save $58,000.00 dollars.
How?
Because other organizations charge their members $155 dollars to take this training online, on top of and in addition to the $3,000-$4,000 in yearly membership charges these same organizations hit the
