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Board approves combining community/family communications and HR duties into single role to save about $40,000
Summary
The Board approved an updated job description to combine community and family communications and human-resources specialist duties into one position, projected to save the district roughly $40,000; the meeting also covered school communications staffing, social-media support, and coach/assistant staffing for safety.
At the special-called meeting, board members reviewed and approved an updated job description that combines the community and family communications specialist role with the human-resources specialist into a single position, a change staff said would save the district approximately $40,000 annually.
A presenter (identified in the transcript as a staff speaker) asked the board to approve combining the two positions and said an updated job description had been prepared. The board moved, seconded and approved the consolidation by voice vote.
Discussion during the same agenda segment included plans to expand school-level communications capacity by modeling Mount Vernon Elementary’s approach to social media: staff said Mount Vernon has used its SBDM allocation successfully to pay for social-media work and the district plans to train school-based communicators so messages and the district app (ThrillShare/other tools as noted) look uniform. Savannah, identified as district staff, was named as the staffer who would train school-level communicators.
Other personnel changes discussed and reflected elsewhere in the agenda included aligning elementary assistant days from 30 to 20 to match middle-school assistant days after a retirement, adding days to central-office receptionist duties instead of summer hires to save costs, and adding an assistant coach position for soccer and volleyball citing safety and travel needs. The presenter tied several of these changes to overall cost-saving efforts and to the salary-schedule and budget items the board approved later in the meeting.
The board approved the combined job description and related staffing items; staff will implement the role consolidation and update job postings/descriptions per board direction.
