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Superintendent: Shared-services arrangement saves staffing and costs, annual report says
Summary
Dr. Matt Montgomery reported the district’s shared-services arrangement represents 36.5 FTEs and estimated that separating districts would require about 11.5 additional positions and roughly $1.76 million in annual personnel costs (about $8.8 million over five years).
Dr. Matt Montgomery presented the shared-services annual report and urged the board to view the arrangement as a continuing benefit to taxpayers and district operations. He said the analysis focuses on base salaries, pension obligations and basic health insurance and excludes many related expenses.
“The current shared service full time equivalent employees is 36.5, staff members,” Dr. Montgomery said, and he translated the staffing difference into dollars: the analysis estimates separating the districts would require 11.5 additional employees and “that translates to $8,800,000 of impact in a forecast in personnel cost alone.” He also noted about $1,000,000 in technology licensing and at least 13 shared contracts that would need to be renegotiated if districts separated.
A board member asked whether community interest in leaving the shared-services model persisted. Montgomery said he has not heard active concern recently and described the annual report as a way to keep the community informed about the rationale for staying shared. He emphasized the report measures potential additional personnel requirements rather than labeling the outcomes as direct “savings.”
The report, which the superintendent said is timed to the same snapshot date used last year (July 1), will be shared with the community and is intended to frame future discussion about whether the districts should remain in the shared-services arrangement.
