Executive committee adopts rolling approach to annual report and readies annual report dissemination

The Connecticut State Advisory Council for Special Education Executive Committee on Jan. 8, 2025, discussed streamlining the annual report process by maintaining a rolling priorities-and-recommendations document updated after each full council meeting.

Chair Susan Yankee proposed capturing priorities immediately after each full SAC meeting so the executive committee could review and consolidate them over the year: “I was thinking after each full SAC meeting when we bring those up, if those are then discussed quickly at our executive committee meetings and we have some sort of rolling document, then when we get to the end of the year, it should be just cutting and pasting and clarifying.”

Staff agreed that a dated, rolling document would provide version history and make finalization easier. Brian (staff) said CERC would assist with dissemination and that the department (State Department of Education) would also share the final report to the council’s distribution list. The committee asked staff to prepare a short set of slides that summarize priorities and recommendations so the full council can be briefed quickly at the Jan. 15 meeting and ahead of the Jan. 22 legislative breakfast.

Nut graf: The rolling-document approach is intended to reduce year-end workload and to ensure that priorities and recommendations are traceable to specific meetings; staff were assigned to produce summary slides and circulate the finalized annual report and short priority summary to legislative contacts and council members.

The committee also confirmed that Jolie would try to forward the Nov. 7 minutes by the end of the Jan. 8 meeting; Jennifer will receive a Social Security Administration information packet and circulate it to members instead of scheduling a presentation.