001Good evening. My name is Da Uni and I'm the executive director of district business services at San Matio County Office of Education. I'm here this evening to communicate SMCA's appreciation to the administrative and support staff at Belmont Redwood Shore School Districts for their work in implementing the enterprise resource planning system which is the financial system called uh frontline California ERP. So, we have been working on implementing the system since March of uh 2024 and it has been a tremendous um endeavor throughout this county and uh we understand that BRSD staff have full-time jobs. So taking on this change was on top of their already four workloads and we believe that the implementation has been successful because SMCE has not received any complaints that your July and pay August payrolls are incorrect. So we think it's
002successful and uh making sure that your employees are paid correctly was one of our top priorities. SMCA paid for the implementation costs of approximately $5.6 6 million and this included paying for the licensing cost of running the two systems as well as consultant time and additional overtime for our staff to support BRSD and also the other count other districts in the county and um we want to definitely acknowledge the hard work of the staff here and this change would not have been possible without their work. So specifically, I wanted to call out and thank the following Belmont Resource team members. Uh Leia Ragac, um budget and accounting supervisor. Jill Bower, pay payroll and benefits specialist. Annie Fermy, human resources specialist. Alysia Lao, accounting technician. Lisa Nahara Kang, human resources assistant. Julie Eastbornne, human resources director.
003and Ree Matsoto, chief business official. So, the Belmont breadore staff have been wonderful to work with. We know that there have been some challenging days when we all felt overwhelmed, but the team kept marching on. So, thank you. And we're now uh past the implementation phase and we're now into the enhancement and continuous improvement phase. And we hope that the district would find the new ERP system a valuable tool to pay your employees correctly, report retirement, um, and, uh, keep track of employee leaves, provide timely financial reports, develop and track budgets, as well as purchase items with proper control procedures, and generally account for the financial resources provided by Belmont Resource Community. Thank you.