It will save the school $10,000 per year long term
The Gilmer County School Board made several major purchases, including a new employee management platform.
The YOSS employee management platform combines human resources, finance and payroll into one platform and will allow GCS to save about $10,000 each year.
“It’s a little cheaper when we use one platform instead of trying to integrate all the rest,” Superintendent Dr. Brian Ridley said in a Thursday, Aug. 21, meeting.
Setting up YOSS will cost $138,000. But the second year of the system will cost $72,450.
Each year after that, its cost will increase by 5 percent.
Switching to one system will also be simpler than using the two systems GCS uses for human resources and payroll.
The board members also approved several other expenditures.
They spent $28,500 on a bonus for school custodians and $141,587 for a new school bus for special education.
The school received this price offer for the bus about a year ago, Ridley said, and prices have risen since then.
“That’s less than what they’re charging for them now,” he said.
The board also agreed to use school buses to provide transportation for the Georgia Apple Festival in exchange for $48,000.
“It gets about a third of that school bus paid for,” Ridley said.