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3.2:1 Problems Overcome Potential teacher employee pools are at their largest during the March, April and May time frames while the CHCSS hiring peaks in June, July and August. This means that the full range of candidates are not considered and hired at the most opportune times. Minority hiring is most opportune at the earlier times. The actual hiring process proceeds far too slowly according to the majority of those interviewed about the process. In spite of this protracted time, we found employee files with incomplete information. We were informed that sometimes employment offers ultimately went to candidates that were not chosen first by the interviewees or may even not have been interviewed. It could not be shown that reference checks were complete for each candidate hired. Hiring is done mostly during the summer. This places a heavy burden on a central service that is not equipped to handle this short term, heavy demand. In all cases, the recommended changes would address the problems observed. 3.3 • Purchasing/Warehousing All purchasing will be done at the local level. The state has provided a list of certified suppliers and contract prices. This information will be resident at the central office host computer and/or at the individual data bases at the schools. Purchases will be entered electronically at the local level using information from the central data base. The information will be transmitted electronically to suppliers who will fill the orders and ship them directly to the local schools. At the time of transmittal of the purchase order, the appropriate account will be encumbered in the local budget. Upon receipt of the purchased items, a funds transfer 8