Visalia Unified outlines public financial dashboard, network security upgrades and rollout of online employee evaluations

Visalia Unified School District officials told the board they will launch a public financial dashboard in the coming months, expand network security with multifactor authentication and continue rolling out an online employee performance-management system to replace a paper-based evaluation process.

The district’s Chief Business Officer, Nathan Hernandez, said the dashboard will use Open Finance inside the district’s existing Tyler Munis system to allow residents to “dive a little bit deeper into the district’s financial activity” than the district’s traditional high‑level reports. “We’re excited that we’re gonna be launching this over the next few months during this year, and we’re utilizing Open Finance,” Hernandez said. He showed a mock-up that allows drill-down from funds to departments and to individual services, using the maintenance department as an example.

The dashboard work is in a prelaunch phase. Hernandez said the site is “live” internally but not posted for public…