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Trustees suspend district-paid cell phones, approve transition toward Google Voice to cut annual costs
Summary
Board voted unanimously to suspend the district policy that established district-issued cell phones and directed staff to migrate eligible lines to Google Voice; staff said the change could reduce the district’s phone bill by roughly $20,000–$26,000 per year.
The Douglas County School District on Thursday voted unanimously to suspend a policy that had supported district-paid cell phones and directed staff to pursue a Google Voice-based alternative for administrative communications.
Jesse Bates, the district’s interim director of information technology, told the board the district currently spends about $36,000 a year for roughly 60–62 cellular lines. He said a Google Voice rollout — an app-based service tied to the district’s Google Workspace accounts — would cost the district roughly $10,000–$15,000 a year for the lines the district expects to use, yielding…
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