SFUSD reports progress and risks in Frontline/Red Rover payroll and HR rollout; board presses for contingency data

District staff told the School Board on Tuesday evening they are continuing intensive work to complete the Frontline enterprise resource planning (ERP) and Red Rover human capital management (HCM) implementations before the district's targeted July 1 go-live date, but cautioned that critical configuration, testing and training tasks remain.

Marin Trujillo, chief of staff, said district teams are "focused on getting this right, not fast," and described the next two weeks as "extremely critical." She and operations and budget leader Meli Lau Smith walked the board through a series of status gauges showing some modules moving from red/orange to green but called out outstanding items including a retirement system interface and remaining HR approvals.

The presentation said central-office training is complete, roughly 400 HR action requests (HRAs) remain pending review, and the district is running pay compares across the workforce to reconcile differences between Empower (the legacy payroll/data system) and Frontline. Trujillo, Smith and Associate Superintendent of Human Resources Amy Baer said pay compares will continue until the district reaches its internal tolerance thresholds and that the team has established a triage and case-management approach for payroll errors.

Why it matters: the ERP/HCM replacement affects payroll, retirement contributions, hiring, site budgets and other daily operations across SFUSD's roughly 9,000 employees.…