With a new budget looming, the Niles Township High School District 219 board of education is trying to save money where it can and is eliminating its top human resources position, officials said.
“It’s actually a restructuring of the human resources department,” said Eric Trimberger, assistant superintendent for business in district 219. “The HR ‘director position’ is being eliminated and is being replaced by an assistant director at a lower salary.”
The board during its July 27 meeting voted in favor of the move, which Trimberger said would save the district as much as $30,000 a year. He also said the district is saving money in similar ways in other departments and is trying to be more efficient in its operations as staff continues to draft the 2017/18 budget, which will come out in the next month or so.
“There’s a lot of administrative changes going on,” he said, adding that those changes have allowed for some cost savings, including the recent hiring of a new district superintendent at a lower salary.
Brian Cox is a freelancer.