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Board approves ESS as substitute staffing provider, aims to add paras and reduce costs

5348135 ยท July 10, 2025

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Summary

The Box Elder School District approved ESS as its substitute staffing vendor, replacing Kelly Services after the district presented expected cost savings and a plan to allow paraprofessionals access to substitute assignments.

Karina Fife, the district's executive director for personnel, presented the recommendation to replace Kelly Services with ESS as the district's substitute placement provider and asked the board to approve ESS.

Fife said the district had used Kelly Services for 26 years and that the change to ESS would reduce the vendor markup on daily substitute pay from approximately 36 percent with Kelly to about 26 percent with ESS. She said the lower markup will allow the district to include paraprofessionals (paras) in the substitute pool through ESS and that ESS offered retention and recruitment incentives for substitutes, such as a $35 sign-on gift and rewards for repeat assignments.

A board member moved to approve ESS as the district substitute service provider; the motion was seconded and approved by voice vote. No opposition was recorded.

Why it matters: District leaders said the vendor change is intended to lower costs and improve fill rates for paraprofessional and classified positions that have been hard to staff. The board approved the recommendation during the meeting's action-item segment.