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District expands employee housing; HR reports fewer special‑education vacancies but dual‑immersion and other hard‑to‑fill roles remain
Summary
Human resources told trustees the district now has additional housing units coming online and has reduced special‑education vacancies from eight to two, but continues to struggle to recruit dual‑immersion teachers and med‑tech staff; trustees discussed policy limits on housing durations and next steps for staffing outreach.
Human Resources staff reported at the June 10 meeting that the district’s employee-housing portfolio is expanding and that several previously open positions have been filled, although some hard-to-fill roles remain.
Human Resources staff told trustees the district currently manages nine housing units (including recently completed units on Croix and Mercure and the Winterhaven house to be available July 20) and expects to fill multiple units in the coming weeks. The district plans to update policy 4-98 (employee housing) to add new units to the tracker and to consider changing procedural details rather than rewriting policy language each time.
On staffing, HR reported progress: the district began the year with eight special-education teacher vacancies and is now down to two. HR staff said dual‑language elementary vacancies remain a challenge and that the med‑tech position and a K–12 principal vacancy for "Carrie" (application period closing the next day in the meeting) are active searches.
Trustees and staff discussed whether the district’s current two-year rule for bridge housing should be extended depending on recruitment needs; HR staff said several current occupants will need to find housing again within a year if the two-year limit remains in force. Board members asked HR to coordinate recruitment outreach and to consider scalable housing policy options.
HR staff described active recruitment strategies: posting to education-specific job platforms (e.g., SchoolSpring), outreach to university networks and use of LinkedIn and other national contacts. One trustee offered to use professional networks to broaden outreach for difficult-to-fill positions.
The board also received updates on benefits and operations: a plan to run staff health screenings and flu shots in October–November at school sites (no‑cost under district insurance), efforts to finalize open contracts and a near-term push to digitize contract signatures (staff said they are close to an electronic-signature process but must confirm the state-approved contract format supports e-signature). HR indicated evaluations and career-ladder data will be certified with the state and used to inform staff movement on the state career ladder and the district’s reimbursement estimates.
