Eastern York HR director reports 2024–25 staffing mix, retention and software upgrades

Mrs. Myers, Eastern York School District's human resources director, told the board the HR report presented data from the 2024'25 fiscal year and highlighted staffing, retention and new software tools. "Most of the data tonight will be based on the 2425 fiscal year," she said.

Myers reported the district processed 65 new hires, 24 resignations and 31 leaves in 2024'25 and said Eastern York currently lists 346 paid district employees, an increase of one from the prior year. She told the board the district offers benefits to 285 full'time staff and some part'time employees, and that exit interviews are offered to every departing employee; if employees do not come in person the district mails a packet to be returned.

The presentation described subcontracted services that supplement district payroll: the Nutrition Group (about 20 employees), Star Services for custodial (about 25), a substitute pool that fluctuates around 125 people, MSN for nursing coverage, Red Line and Rolling Hills for transportation, Laurel Life and Lincoln Intermediate Unit (LIU) staff housed in district buildings. Myers said those subcontracted staff are not included in the 346 paid employees figure because that total covers employees paid through district payroll.

Myers reported a 96% retention figure for the district (she contrasted that with earlier years when retention was lower) and said the district has made targeted increases for unionized support staff in recent negotiations to improve market competitiveness. She noted some assistant positions remain part time for budgetary reasons.

On technology and operations, Myers said the district is completing a time and attendance rollout with kiosks in the buildings and training scheduled for hourly support staff. "The principals are very excited that they can approve someone's time from anywhere," she said. She also described work with the district'wide Financial Information System (FIST) to build an HR dashboard that can report staff counts by building, age, years of service, absences and salary totals; she said the dashboard currently shows about 200 teachers and allows extraction of multiple personnel metrics.

Board members asked for comparative student'to'staff ratios and clarification about what the district counts (Myers said she can pull comparisons to other districts). She said the district has increased staff in recent years primarily because some programs previously provided by the Lincoln Intermediate Unit returned to in'district operation.

Myers closed by inviting board requests for additional dashboard reports and reminding the board that some employee records still exist only on paper and district teams are working on digitization and cleanup of years'of service data.

Dr. Mancuso thanked Myers for the presentation.