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School district proposes finance-restructuring plan, board votes to send recommendation to full board
Summary
Chief presenter Tim Perron outlined a restructuring that would add an accounting supervisor, repurpose an internal-audit role, eliminate one AP clerk and shift some salaries to federal programs; the committee voted to forward the recommendation to the full board.
Tim Perron, the district official who introduced the proposal, told the board the accounting department had been hit by multiple absences and contained single points of failure that made operations vulnerable. "We had one person trained to do the 1099 process, and when that person was out, we had to figure it out," Perron said, arguing for cross-training and new supervisory layers.
Perron asked the committee to approve creating an accounting supervisor to oversee grant accountants and clerks and to provide day-to-day leadership and mentoring. "For right now, I am only asking for an accounting supervisor," he said, noting the job description was included in the packet and saying the position would be an internal hire. He said the supervisor would be placed on the district's supervisor salary schedule.
As part of the same package, Perron proposed reclassifying an unfilled internal-auditor post into an "internal audit specialist" at a clerical level and eliminating one accounts-payable clerk who resigned. He said those moves, together with other salary shifts, would reduce total salaries in the accounting department by roughly $194,000 while still adding the supervisor post. Perron told the board the reclassification alone would save about $65,000.
Perron also proposed a $5,000 reduction in the chief financial officer's salary, saying he would "cap" his own pay as an example and shift responsibilities to the proposed supervisor. He said the district could also move an estimated $40,000 of general-fund salary costs directly to federal program accounts where allowable.
Board members questioned the mechanics and the benefit-rate assumptions used in the projections; Perron said he used full-year 2024–25 salaries as the comparison baseline. A member asked for clarity on how the vacancy and recent resignations were accounted for in the savings estimate; Perron responded that he modeled a full year to allow consistent comparison.
After discussion, a board member moved to forward the finance-department restructuring recommendation to the full board for final consideration; the motion was seconded and approved by voice vote.
The committee took no final personnel actions at the meeting; it recommended the full board consider the restructuring and the financial projections at a later date.
