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Illinois ASBO is an active sponsor or co-sponsor of several state-wide programs. Current Programs include Illinois Energy Consortium, Illinois School District Liquid Asset Fund Plus and p-Card. Sponsored programs provide specific services to assist in the daily function of school districts and serve the mission of the association.
For more information on any of these programs, please contact the listed representative or Holly Wallace, Secretary of Special Services at 815.753.9083 or hwallace@niu.edu
 The Illinois Energy Consortium is a joint energy purchasing consortium sponsored by IASB, IASA and Illinois ASBO. Designed to lower utility costs for Illinois school districts and community colleges making more funds available for technology, staff development and other educational goals. The IEC is governed by a board consisting of an equal number of representatives from each sponsoring association including each association's executive director. The IEC, with the assistance of Latham and Associates, an energy-consulting firm, conducted an economic feasibility study of forming an electric purchasing consortium for its members and found that members can expect significant savings by forming an energy consortium.
For information contact:
Ron Steigerwald
Statewide Marketing Director
Illinois Energy Consortium
(p) 847.567.3051
email: rsteigerwald@hotmail.com
Illinois Energy Consortium website: www.illec.org
 Illinois School District Liquid Asset Fund Plus is an inter-governmental investment program for school districts and community colleges in Illinois. Co-sponsored by Illinois ASBO, IASA and IASB, the program offers opportunities to school districts for the investment and management of funds.
ISDLAF+ Multi-Class Series consists of two classes the Liquid Class and the Max Class. The Liquid Class provides participants the benefit of unlimited check-writing privileges and a competitive yield. The Max Class offers a higher potential yield with no minimum balance. The Fund also offers a Fixed Income Investment Program where Participants can purchase fixed income securities at varying maturities to coincide with their needs. Illinois ASBO partners with PMA Securities, Inc. for the marketing of the Fund to participants. PMA Financial Network, Inc. serves as Administrator and Prudent Man Advisors, Inc. acts as the Investment Adviser for the Fund.
For information contact:
Emmert Dannenberg
Illinois ASBO/ISDLAF+ Statewide Marketing Director
(p) 630.393.9494 ext. 1714
email: edannenberg@pmanetwork.com
ISDLAF+ website: www.isdlafplus.com
 p-Card is an Illinois ASBO sponsored program that is in contract with Harris Bank/MasterCard to provide school districts, community colleges and other educational entities in Illinois and other states with a procurement card (p-Card). A procurement card, while it looks like a credit card/debit card, is very different. The program accomplishes the following:
- Stream line the purchasing process
- Reduce (not do away with) the purchase order paperwork
- Increase budget control and internal controls
- Provide better reporting in terms of who/what/when/how much
- Reduce the costs of payments
For information contact:
Holly Wallace
Secretary of Special Services
(p) 815.753.9083
email: hwallace@niu.edu
p-Card website: www.illinois-pcard.com
Illinois ASBO sponsored vendor Accelify brings a service that will greatly simplify the process of claiming federal Medicaid reimbursements for your district. The program's primary objective is to increase the amount of Medicaid funds your district can recoup for health-related services provided to Special Education students. Accelify has a history of increasing revenue for districts throughout the country.
The program enables the use of Accelify's automated, web-based Service Delivery Log (AcceliDIRECT), currently in use in hundreds of districts throughout the country. The automated billing system allows school district personnel to easily and painlessly record the various health-related services provided to Special Education students. Accelify handles the rest of the claiming process for you.
For information about the Illinois School-Based Medicaid Claiming Program, call (888) 9ACCELIFY, or visit http://il.acceliserv.com.
 The Illinois Association of School Business Officials (IASBO), along with the Association of School Business Officials International (ASBO), the National Association of Counties (NACO), the National Institute of Governmental Purchasing (NIGP), the National League of Cities (NLC), and the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) sponsors the U.S. Communities Government Purchasing Alliance.
The U.S. Communities program provides all local agencies in the U.S. with publicly competitively bid contracts for various products and services. Most local agencies may piggyback on a contract competitively solicited by another public agency, thereby eliminating the need to re-solicit. Through the buying power of large purchasers in the U.S. Communities program all local government agencies receive access to excellent pricing and contract terms.
U.S. Communities offers local agencies:
Competitively bid contracts by a lead local agency.
Most favorable local agency pricing.
No cost to participate.
National sponsorship by leading associations and purchasing organizations.
A broad range of high quality products such as office/school supplies, office furniture, industrial supplies, electrical & data comm supplies, janitorial supplies, technology product, P.E. supplies, park and playground supplies, office machines, and carpet and flooring.
The aggregate purchasing power of public agencies nationwide.
Management by public purchasing professionals.
For more information, visit www.uscommunities.org or send an e-mail to info@uscommunities.org.
Frequently Asked Questions
Illinois Registered Agencies
ISBE forms purchasing network for districts (pdf)
Illinois ASBO Partners with the Illinois State Board of Education's Purchasing
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