Description & Overview

MPAAA proudly offers its membership the annual Fall Conference. With all the changes expected in the coming year, this conference provides valuable information for everyone involved in Pupil Accounting, Pupil Auditing, and Educational Data!

As in previous years, we're offering a special certification day for those working on their MSBO certification as a Pupil Accounting Specialist (PAS), Pupil Accounting Auditor (PAA) or Specialist in Educational Data (SED). For the first time ever, we are able to offer the following courses that had previously ONLY been available at the spring MSBO conference: Principles of Education, Effective Communications, Technology Policies, and Ethics/Wrap-up. These courses are needed by most of our attendees who are working on their certifications, and are a great additional benefit to attending the fall conference.  Because of these one-time courses, we will not be holding our fall conference in the upper peninsula, and we hope all MPAAA members from all over the state can join us for this unique opportunity.

A copy of the agenda with session descriptions can be viewed HERE.

Speakers

Various speakers from around the state (including CEPI, MDE etc.) and local school districts will be in attendance. Scheduled speakers can be found on the posted agenda which can be accessed via the events downloads.

Hotel Information:

This conference will be held at the Boyne Mountain Resort in Boyne Falls, MI. Just call Boyne Central Reservations at 800.462.6963 and ask for the Michigan Pupil Accounting & Attendance Association 2016. Several room types are available, with rates as low as $89 per night.  If you would like to reserve your room online, you can do so by clicking HERE. Be sure to choose the entire resort as your location, and "All" as the room type to see all the available room choices. 

I have also booked blocks of rooms in Petoskey, which is roughly 15 miles from the resort.  It's not a bad drive, and there are 2 options:

• The Hampton Inn & Suites has rooms for $129 per night. the hotel is located at 920 Spring Street, in Petoskey. Their number is (231)348-9555, and use the code MPAAA to get the rate.
• The America's Best Value Inn at 1300 Spring Street has rooms at $108 per night. Their number is (231)347-3925. Again, use code MPAAA to get the rate.

I do not believe you will be able to get these rates on-line for either hotel, so please call them to book your room.

General Information

There are 3 registration options:

• Members can attend the Monday Certification Day for $139 ($180 for non-members)
• Members can attend the Conference (Tuesday and Wednesday) for $295 ($415 for non-members)
• Members can attend the entire 3-day event for $395 ($550 for non-members)

Breakfast and Lunch will be provided each day.

Session and other presenter materials will be posted on the MPAAA website in advance of the conference. Attendees are welcome to print the materials ahead of time for the sessions which they are planning to attend.

Please see the MPAAA website to submit questions to session presenters in advance. Submitting questions in advance will help our presenter’s research your specific question prior to the conference. 

On-site walk-ins incur an additional $25 fee to attend. 

Online registration does require credit card payment, and purchase orders are no longer accepted. To pay by check, please complete THIS registration form, and send it in with your registration check.

Cancellation Policy & Contact Information

Members and guests will be accessed a cancellation fee of $100 for event registrations cancelled up to four weeks prior to the event start date. There will be no refunds for cancellations occurring within four weeks of an event's start date (after August 29th, 2016).

Please contact our Executive Director to request cancellation of a workshop or conference which you are registered, or for any other event / MPAAA related question.

*NO REFUNDS* will be granted if cancellation is after August 29th cutoff date.