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Sycamore presents new staffing dashboard; trustees review retirements, FTE counts and scheduling approach
Summary
District HR and operations staff showed a newly developed staffing dashboard that reconciles HR and finance data, details FTE and headcount, and lays out retirements, resignations and replacement assumptions. Trustees discussed responsible staffing, enrollment overlays, and how schedule changes can improve efficiency without cutting programs.
District staff demonstrated a staffing and people dashboard intended to make staffing counts, retirement projections and salary impacts more transparent to the board and administrative leaders.
Brad (district staff) and other administrators described the dashboard as a reconciled view of HR and finance systems that captures full‑time equivalents (FTE), headcount and movement (hires, resignations, retirements, leaves). "We have 835.27 FTE, and we have 894 employees," a district staff member said while explaining the difference between headcount and FTE. The April 1 snapshot used in the presentation showed roughly $450,000 in resignations, about $1.9 million in retirements and approximately $3.1 million in…
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