Fixing LAUSD payroll system

Los Angeles Unified School District officials announced Wednesday they have hired the company that successfully implemented the city's payroll system to help the district fix accuracy problems in its own payroll network. Naush Boghosian in the Daily News.

Hess & Associates Inc. will be paid $100,000 to improve the accuracy of LAUSD's new payroll process, which has overpaid and underpaid thousands of employees for more than eight months.

"When it comes to paying our teachers accurately and on time, the district cannot be too proud. If we cannot fix the problem here, then we must look elsewhere for help," said school board member Tamar Galatzan, who sought the city's help with the payroll problem.

"Our primary goal is to have the payroll system operating so smoothly that everyone is paid the correct amount. But until that great day is here, we must have the capacity to verify quickly whether an employee is getting paid correctly."