District finance and human resources leaders briefed the board on migration from legacy systems to CitySuite and on an add‑on vendor payment tool, Corpay, which will enable electronic vendor ACH payments and is expected to produce rebates to the district.

Finance lead Amy Jones and HR leader Lisa Smothers said the finance module went live and staff are continuing to configure purchasing and accounts payable workflows. Corpay was described as an adjacent product that will streamline vendor payment and provide rebates; staff estimated roughly $250,000 in annual rebates once fully implemented.

HR and payroll: The HR/payroll migration to CitySuite is advancing toward a parallel testing and January go‑live window, staff said. A key part of the work is validating staff records and pay schedules: the district is reconciling historical stipends, verifying teacher experience credit and standardizing salary steps so offers to candidates and retention management are clear.

Why it matters: Finance and HR systems affect payroll accuracy, vendor payments and hiring. Senior leaders said the new system should reduce manual workloads, improve transparency about salary schedule placement and create permanent records that speed onboarding and allow better tracking of retention metrics.

Next steps and caveats: Staff said implementation is ongoing, with training for central office users and further configuration of cost‑center allocations. They noted remaining data clean‑up (experience credit, legacy stipend inconsistencies) and said HR is building a data team to maintain and report retention and compensation metrics.

The district also noted legal limits on non‑monetary employee benefits in response to a board question about offering employees subsidized childcare: staff said gifting such benefits could raise ethics issues and must be examined by counsel.