Business Management Solutions
Berrien RESA provides numerous services in business administration, clerical support and operations management, including:
- Providing business office and payroll services for local districts.
- Providing technical support to local districts by maintaining the Educational Entity Master, a required state report.
- Sharing membership subscriptions for various newsletters and website resources.
- Sharing information relative to legal issues and providing countywide legal in-service opportunities.
- Establishing a countywide school calendar used by local districts for common planning purposes.
- Administering pupil accounting services for Berrien County and reporting student count data in compliance with the Michigan Department of Education's requirements.
- Acting as the fiscal agency for numerous educational and non-profit grants.
- Serving as the Medicaid biller for Berrien County.
- Offering newsletter design and article templates, form letter templates, example press releases and talking points for local districts.
- Provides communication consulting and crisis management assistance.
- Maintaining a district-wide website that features resource information about all of Berrien RESA’s services and programs.
- Publishing resource-driven newsletters for the educational community and parents.
- Providing duplication services for video/CDs/DVDs and imaging services.
- Providing mail and educational materials delivery courier services.
- Offering Skyward (business system software) training coordination, establishing the user email list for the software, and serving as an information resource regarding Skyward applications.
- Ordering form documents (W-2, 1099s) for local districts at volume discounts.
- Providing representation and coordination with Berrien County Emergency Management.
- Hosting monthly Berrien/Cass/Van Buren School Business Officials meetings.
- Hosting meetings for a tri-county Drug & Alcohol Consortium.
- Securing low cost pricing for ice melt services for multiple districts from a selected vendor.
- Sharing superintendent responsibilities with River and Riverside Schools.
- Providing building maintenance services to River and Riverside Schools, including asbestos inspections every 6 months and contracting a third-party vendor to provide three-year inspection reports. Berrien RESA also provides construction project coordination for the two schools.
- Loaning large maintenance equipment with other districts and municipalities.
- Serving as an equipment and supplies purchasing agent on behalf of districts.