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Tuesday, May 14, 2013

School Officials Say Outsourcing Not Preferred Among Audit Options

The Abrahams Group audited the Braintree School Department late last year.

An independent audit presented Monday night to the School Committee calls for streamlining administrative and financial processes, improving technology infrastructure and looking at outsourcing departments such as food service and maintenance as a way of saving Braintree hundreds of thousands of dollars. Committee members said they will take the report under advisement and did not take any action on it during their meeting at Hollis School, the same place where a different makeup of the board approved the audit two years ago. Outsourcing certain services to save money by reducing employee salaries and benefits was the one recommendation quickly dismissed by several committee members as not worth the potential monetary savings. "There's …

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Hollis Elementary School and Braintree Electric Light Department

Matt

6:52 pm on Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Mr Markman. Do you know if the dog park on route 37 is open yet? If not do you know when it will open? Its the dog park that cost the town 1.8 million to get.   more ›

Monday, November 26, 2012

Braintree Officials Look to School System Audit to Squeeze Savings

The Abrahams Group has been selected to go over non-educational aspects of the Braintree Public Schools.

Nearly five years after the town's departments were audited following the change in Braintree's government, the school department is now preparing for an independent examination of its own practices. The Abrahams Group, based in Framingham, has performed audits of districts or portions of districts in Wayland, Westfield, Springfield, Hull and other towns, and has begun in Braintree by requesting job analysis questionnaires from 89 staff members. Answers to those forms – due last week – will serve as the basis for a comprehensive review of Braintree Public Schools. Abrahams will look at the department's budget process, building and grounds maintenance, transportation, school lunch, communications, accounting and other areas, looking for …

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Braintree Public Schools, External School Budget Audit Pushed by Committee Members, and Fiscal 2013 Braintree Public Schools Budget Gets School Committee OK

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Joseph Markman

1:22 pm on Monday, November 26, 2012

I don't have a copy of the questionnaires, but the summary provided to the committee last week included questions such as who do you communicate with on a regular basis, what kind of technology do you use, how much time do you spend on certain tasks, etc. Those answers will then be used to look for redundancies and other ways that the department can save time and money.   more ›

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