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Leadership Positions in Organizations

Ron Richardson on both the IASBO Sustainable Professional Development Committee and
the DuPAge Illinois Association of School Business Officials Fundraising Committee

Steve Raskin on MO AIA Board of Directors and QBS Committee, St. Louis Construction
Forum Education Foundation STEM Outreach Committee, A4LE, Missouri SAVE Coalition,
and the National Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Resilience Committee.

Goal 3: Client retention.

FY17 UPDATE:
Focused on developing existing client relationships that go three deep – PIC to Superintendent,
PM to CSBO, and PA to Buildings and Grounds Director. We have spent more time getting to know
clients on a personal level though sharing of meals in the course of projects and at conferences.

Goal 4: Blow our own horn.

FY17 UPDATE:
This year particular efforts were made to obtaining increased speaking opportunities. This resulted
in the following:

FY17
Ron Richardson: “Sustainability in Education: Proposed Early Learning Center for River Trails School
District 26”, Joint Annual Conference, Chicago.
Peggy Hoffman: "The Power of Place: Learning Spaces & Instructional Design", ICE.
Ron Richardson: “High Performing, Healthy and Cost Reducing Facilities – Developing a Practice
of Sustainability in Your School District, IASBO, Naperville.
Ron Richardson: Reducing the Budget Impact of Changing Building Code Requirements”, IASBO
Annual Conference, Peoria.

Early FY18
Ron Richardson and Peggy Hoffman: “Sustainability in Education: Proposed Early Learning Center
River Trails School District 26”, Ed Spaces 2017 in Kansas City.
Mike Denz and Peggy Hoffman: “Career Academy Model High School: A New Prototype to Serve
Rural America”, Ed Spaces 2017 in Kansas City.
Ron Richardson: “Site Generated Stormwater Pollution and School Sites”, 2017 Midwest Facilities
Master Conference (WASBO/IASBO), Baraboo.
Josh Czerniak and Celeste Karier: “Transformational Strategies: Taking Existing Spaces into the 21
st
Century”, A4LE 2017 LearningSCAPES Conference in Atlanta.
Ron Richardson: “Full Day Academy: Sustainability for PK-12 Schools”, Joint Annual Conference,
Chicago.

Goal 5: Geographic expansion of our practice area.

FY17 UPDATE:
As stated earlier we have realigned and focused our efforts primarily on expanding opportunities
in Missouri, new opportunities in Wisconsin, reactive in Indiana, and potential new opportunities in
Texas.

PROJECT MILESTONES
This year was highlighted by the completion of many of the typical sorts of summer projects that
we often see in our practice area – health life safety and small renovation and/or addition
projects. A SO Region list of these would include: the Mt. Vernon HS Greenhouse, the Sparta
classroom addition, Alton Mark Twain renovations for a K-12 Special Education School, Roxanna