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Are you planning to include a school construction bond on the ballot to address your needed school facility, technology and infrastructure upgrades?

Then you should consider an Owner Controlled Insurance Program (OCIP) to ease the school construction frustrations faced by many districts.

According to Kris Olafsson, Deputy Superintendent for El Monte City School District, he initially started using ASCIP’s OCIP for his school construction projects “to ease the administrative burdens” of monitoring all of the construction contracts and verifying the insurance limits of the contractors and their subs were adequate and current throughout the project.  The high coverage limits also provided assurances that if a significant accident happened, there would be adequate coverage.  But then he discovered

In 2013, ASCIP began offering an annual Risk Control Grant program as a partnership with members to help them develop one-time, innovative projects that could benefit the entire membership with their risk management and loss control efforts.  ASCIP is excited to announce the realization of one such grant award – STAT!  This was introduced to you at our Annual Membership Meeting last year.  The Simulated Threat Assessment Trainer (STAT) is now available for all members to use. 

by Kristine E. Kwong, Esq.

The California Fair Employment and Housing Council has recently amended the regulations to the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, which took effect on April 1, 2016.  These amendments provide basic provisions to a mandatory anti-harassment policy, and clarify some of the protected categories in the Act.  The following are a few highlights of these amendments.