District Business Services

The District Business Services (DBS) department assists school districts in maximizing revenues, ensuring compliance with accounting, legal, and other reporting requirements, and maintaining accurate, efficient, and cost-effective business operations.

It provides business, technical, and advisory services, including those related to accounting and budgetary controls, finance, cash management and reconciliation, payroll, purchasing, financial systems implementation and support, attendance reporting, revenue limit calculations, review of district audit reports, property taxes and revenue apportionments, vendor payment audits, temporary borrowings, and other fiscal operations.

DBS acts as an intermediary between school districts and county, state, and federal government agencies. It is responsible for reviewing and approving school districts’ budgets, interim reports, year-end financial statements and audit reports. DBS processes all vendor warrants and runs payroll for employees within the school districts and county office of education. Staff also prepare Federal, State, Social Security, Medicare and other payroll reports and generates monthly retirement contribution reports for the Public Employees and State Teachers Retirement Systems.