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Providing Infrastructure Support for the District

The primary focus of the IT Infrastructure team is to maintain, improve, and strengthen the overall technical infrastructure
for the District to meet the ever-increasing demand for access and bandwidth. IT Infrastructure maintains data centers at
Fulton-Holland Educational Services Center (FHESC) and The Education Network (TEN). The team installed over 3000
Wi-Fi access points across the District in FY23 to allow better Wi-Fi access for staff and students.
Transitioning from AT&T fiber to Crown Castle fiber will provide upgraded speeds as needed and improve redundancy
capabilities. The team completed build-outs of technology infrastructure at Blue Lake ES and schools being relocated due
to renovation projects. Other improvements include upgrading data cabinets and backup power systems at District schools.

The team also re-cabled several schools to allow for security camera enhancements, installed over 200 routers to support
the Centegix/CrisisAlert project, and redistributed/ordered Lexmark multifunction printers to support the Student
Information System (SIS) Document Center effort.

Recruitment & Retention

Team Palm Beach
The Department of Recruitment & Retention aims to attract, match, place, and retain high-quality talent who exemplify
the District’s values. In addition to processing District employees’ hiring, transfers, and promotions, the Department of
Recruitment & Retention manages various programs and initiatives.

The Department is successfully into the sixth year of the Human Resources (HR) Partners program, providing a one-stop
resource to meet the human capital needs of schools. HR Partners have been a resource to increase the capacity of school
principals by providing support in recruiting and selecting highly effective teachers.

The Human Capital Management (HCM) dashboard greatly assists principals and leaders in making human capital decisions.
This HCM dashboard is used to drive HR Partner data-driven analytics sessions that inform continuous talent management
guidance efforts with schools. Additionally, the dashboard is used by HR technicians to track the hiring process and provide
the best customer service to all schools and departments.

Hiring Process Statistics
• Hired/transferred 2,515 teachers
• Maintained a low instructional vacancy rate of 3% throughout the school year
• Facilitated the hiring/transferring of 2,778 regular non-instructional employees
• Facilitated the hiring/transferring of 282 administrators
• Processed a total of 9,152 new hires and transfers (regular & temporary) for the District

Time to Hire
The Department of Recruitment & Retention aims to onboard new employees while ensuring that all portions of the process
are completed on time and that all eligibility requirements are met. The hiring process is a collaboration between many
stakeholders, including hiring managers at school sites and departments such as Risk Management, Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP), Compensation & Employee Information Services, HR, and School Police. The target goal for an applicant
to be cleared for employment from job offer to ready-to-hire is 16 working days. For FY23, the average time from job offer
to ready-to-hire has been less than 13 days.

Recruitment Highlights
Team Palm Beach held its largest in-person hiring event of the year on March 29 at the South Florida Fairgrounds Expo
Center. This event attracted 548 individuals who helped to fill over 100 vacancies District-wide.

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