What has Brookline already done to find efficiencies and control personnel costs?
The School Department is consolidating two administrative positions that screen, interview, hire and assign substitute teachers. The Town and the School Department are working to streamline and consolidate their payroll departments in order to eliminate at least one position in the School Department payroll office. 1.4 positions will be eliminated in the schools. In addition, the School Department has put into place a number of administrative controls to eliminate or reduce absences before and after non-school days and to ensure that job-sharing does not increase health insurance costs. The Town anticipates reducing staffing in the Department of Public Works for an anticipated savings of $ 200,000. And these are only the planned economies for next year. Since the last override, Brookline has taken numerous steps to increase efficiency and ensure good financial planning. Brookline has been rewarded for its careful budgeting and planning with one of the few triple-A bond ratings among Ma
