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Center for Effective School Operations, LLC
Center for Effective School Operations, LLC offers business services, human resources, grant writing, transportation, and maintenance and facility operations consulting. The firm’s services focus on a broad range of operational concerns for the public sector.
The Center for Effective School Operations, LLC (CESO) is a full services advisory and management firm that provides expertise and supplemental support to school districts. Our focus is on addressing complex challenges through a structured and disciplined analytical process that allows our clients to select the best options for them to address issues and concerns within all aspects of organizational management.
CESO staff have provided consulting support to more than 400 school districts in 3 countries on a broad range of topics that are focused on improving efficiency and effectiveness. We have focused extensively on designing decision-making processes that allow school districts to best balance the use of their financial, technical, human resources, and capital assets. Our clients include rural, suburban, and urban school districts. We have expertise in the complexities of organizational design, change management, leadership, and decision making. We also have decades of experience addressing the technical challenges of managing school finance, transportation human resources, maintenance, and facility operations.


Fusebox LLC
Fusebox LLC offers business services consulting and maintenance and facilities operations consulting. Their firm focuses on tech-enabled data management consulting for utility savings.
Fusebox, powered by Pierce Energy Planning, is a “tech-enabled” utility management company. Data (meter billing data, interval and real-time) is aggregated through automation from a variety of inputs, digested, and delivered as actionable insights to clients. Each client organization is assigned a project team that works in the background to review data trends, patterns, and communicate strategies which when implemented deliver significant savings to the bottom line. The Fusebox Team of engineers and utility experts analyze data identifying billing errors and rate plan anomalies. Reports and alerts are sent to the client on a regular basis and quarterly face to face discussions held. The Fusebox user-friendly dashboard allows clients to visualize their use and manage all utility types and providers in one place: easy, smart, and efficient. Special consulting services are offered including solar review and analysis, energy management system review, contract savings reviews, energy efficiency studies and water management plans.


Gauge Precision Consulting, LLC
Gauge Precision Consulting, LLC offers business services consulting and transportation consulting, with an emphasis on school safety, security, and risk management within the business services discipline, and student transportation.
Gauge Precision Consulting, LLC provides professional consulting services in two areas. Student transportation and School Safety and Security.
Our student transportation consulting is intended to help school districts reduce their large transportation operating budgets while improving their customer service. Our work can include bus routing optimizations; boundary planning; bell time optimizations; special needs and McKinney-Vento transportation recommendations; staffing reviews; director searches and more. We have performed consulting services for districts ranging from 3,000 students to 42,000 students.
Our school safety and security services can include vulnerability assessments of campuses; training reviews for compliance; student, staff and facility safety preparedness; emergency operation plan development; risk management reviews and more.


Heinfeld Meech & Co., P.C.
Heinfeld Meech & Co., P.C. offers business services and human resources consulting, with a focus on accounting, auditing, and advisory services.


HR Wise LLC
HR Wise LLC offers business and human resources consulting services, including Native American services which includes consulting for housing policies, procedures development and staff training, Indian Housing Plans, Annual Performance Reporting, program leveraging, procurement and contracts management, Davis-Bacon/TERO Wage Compliance and monitoring, internal audit oversight and review, crime prevention policy development and accounts receivables mitigation.


Professional Group Public Consulting, Inc. (The)
The Professional Group Public Consulting, Inc. (PGPC Inc.) offers Business Services and Human Resources Consulting, with a focus on remote school districts.
The Professional Group Public Consulting will assist you with Business Management Services, HR needs, as well as Grants, and Curriculum issues. Our staff is seasoned with years of knowledge and experience, both in the public and the private sectors. We can provide assistance, education, and training in Business Management and Services.
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Compliance issues regarding the Uniform System of Financial Records requirements
Procurement
PGPC will assist with procurement procedures, so that you become and remain in compliance with Arizona state statutes, USFR, and Arizona state procurement rules.
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Curriculum
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Human Resources
This being a critical aspect of school business management; PGPC provides assistance with assessment of processes for all employee records, from application, clearance, reference check, drug testing to your district’s evaluation instruments and grievances.
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Grants
The Professional Group’s Grants Management staff has a wealth of experience in applying for and managing federal programs, state projects, and competitive grants. Our staff works closely with educators and administrators to take their ideas and refine them into compliant, approvable grant projects that are easy to track and manage through accounting software.


Sunny Path Associates, Inc.
Sunny Path Associates, Inc. offers business services consulting with a focus on procurement and finance.


Southwest Education Consulting Associates Inc., SWECA Inc.
SWECA Inc. offers business services consulting, human resources consulting and grant writing.
Southwest Educational Consulting Associates (SWECA Inc.) provides clients with organization and program evaluation, grant writing services, financial consultation, human capital, operations support, and strategic planning. Each SWECA associate has over fifteen years of recognized and successful experience in their area of expertise.
SWECA associates have successfully supported clients in the areas of:
- Educational Services: Educational program planning has ranged from pre-school and family literacy to college and career placement; professional development, mentoring, curriculum audits; school assessments; program evaluation; and school and program improvement efforts.
- Administrative Services: Strategic planning and administrative team and governing board development; organizational policies and procedures development; and organizational audits.
- Business Office Management and Support: Budget preparation and assistance, payroll, procurement, expenditure processing and monitoring, and federal and state financial reporting.
- Human Resources: Personnel audits; salary, time, and leave analysis; personnel recruitment; and mentoring of personnel.
- Grant Writing: Discretionary moneys have funded new facility construction, remodeling, pre K-grade 12 educational programming, post-secondary programs, workforce development, parenting and adult education. Several clients have used funding as venture capital to start-up and establish new and creative programs.
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