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Board Policy CJ: Administrative Consultants

CJ · Policy · Last revised 06/11/2007 · Last reviewed 06/11/2007 · Adopted 09/11/2000

EMPLOYMENT

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Consulting and Part-time Services

The Superintendent may, from time to time, consider it advisable to contract with individuals to provide consulting or part-time employee services to the DeKalb County School System on a temporary basis. The DeKalb County Board of Education will consider approval of these contracts in accordance with the following guidelines and Administrative Rule CJ-R:

  1. For purposes of this policy, a "long-term consulting services contract" is a consulting services contract which is for a period longer than thirty days.

  2. Renewals of consulting services contracts shall be subject to the same rules and procedures that govern initial consulting services contracts.

  3. Persons providing consulting services shall be independent contractors and not employees of the Board.

  4. The Superintendent shall disclose to the Board the names of individuals to be recommended for long-term consulting services contracts or for consulting services contracts which exceed a total of thirty days in any one twelve-month period, and shall identify which of those individuals have ever been employees of the DeKalb County School District and the reason or reasons (i.e. retirement, termination, voluntary separation) each such former employee is no longer employed by the District.

  5. The employment of former full-time employees of the DeKalb County School District who are to be employed on a part-time basis shall be subject to the reporting requirements of section "D" above.

  6. Subject to the limitations in section "A" above, any contract for long-term consulting services with an individual who has ever been a full-time employee of the DeKalb County Board of Education must be approved by the Board of Education in open session by separate agenda action.

  7. Subject to prescribed Teacher Retirement System regulations, DeKalb County School's retirees approved for part-time employment shall not exceed 19 hours a week or 78 hours per calendar month. Also, see Administrative Regulation CJ-R - Employment Procedures for DeKalb County Retirees.

  8. Written or oral contracts for the services of substitute classroom teachers or paraprofessionals shall not be subject to the procedural requirements of this Policy.