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Board approves multiple service agreements, curriculum payment option and HR vendor to cut costs
Summary
The board approved administrative contracts, a four-year curriculum licensing/payment option, HR management services (MetaMed) to reduce unemployment costs, and several educational service agreements including North Central ESC and resilience therapy for speech services.
The Tiffin City Schools Board on Thursday approved a slate of contracts and service agreements covering curriculum licensing, human-resources consulting, special education services and related purchases.
The board approved a revised curriculum adoption plan for math and lab resources that staff said lowers annual costs by roughly $10,000 compared with previously considered shorter-term options and includes a deferred-payment schedule spread across fiscal years. A staff presenter described the four-year option as saving about $10,000 per year versus the two- and three-year alternatives and allowing two payments in the first year to reduce the immediate cash burden.
Separately, the board approved continuation of HR management services from an outside vendor to help manage unemployment claims and reduce related costs. The presenter said the shift to the vendor helped the district realize about $24,000 in avoided/unemployment-related costs this year.
Board members also approved purchase-service agreements with the North Central Ohio Educational Service Center to provide developmental-center instruction and other ESC services, and an ESC services contract with an estimated value discussed during the meeting (the presenter referenced about $1,423,000 in purchase services). The board approved a contract for NCAT transportation services for student trips on an as-needed basis and a contract for Resilience Therapy to provide speech-language services at Pratt Elementary; staff said the therapy contract covers continuing needs without increasing the district's current expenditure level.
Administrators emphasized that many of these purchase-service costs are partially reimbursed when students placed by other districts attend programs housed in Tiffin, and they said the board separated out certain contracts to clarify reimbursements and billing. The contracts and agreements were approved by roll call during the meeting.
