Business Systems and Payroll
PAYROLL
The San Luis Obispo County Office of Education provides a uniform payroll system that serves school districts, community colleges, charter schools, and the County Office of Education. The payroll and retirement units function as intermediaries between the state and federal reporting agencies and CalPERS and CalSTRS retirement systems. The Payroll Processing unit provides support and assistance in processing payroll, Federal and State tax reporting, and W-2s. The unit provides technical support and advice regarding payroll law compliance and other payroll-related matters. Other services include:
- Direct Deposit processing and reversals
- Payroll warrant replacements and cancellations
- Processing of wage garnishment orders
- Salary abatements
- Taxed Sheltered Annuities (TSA) processing
- Payment of state and federal payroll withholding taxes
- Maintenance of voluntary deduction codes
- Retiree Health & Welfare and Health Benefit Reconciliation
- Payroll Vendor Maintenance
RETIREMENT
The CalPERS and CalSTRS Retirement Reporting units in Business Services are an intermediary between San Luis Obispo County school districts and the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS). The units assist in reporting employee payroll records to the CalPERS and CalSTRS systems and provide support, assistance, and direction to districts by properly coding payroll earnings for retirement law compliance. Services provided by the CalPERS and CalSTRS Retirement units include:
- Legislative updates
- Monitoring membership qualifications
- Processing of retirement forms for membership, separations, and service credit
corrections - Review and processing of Retirement System Election forms
- Reporting of retired annuitant earnings
- Purchase and redeposit of retirement service credit
- Assistance with retirement related audits and corrections
- Resolutions and contract amendments such as Golden Handshakes and exception to
the 180-day wait period for retired annuitants
If you are an employee and have any payroll or retirement related questions, please contact your employing LEA directly. SLOCOE employees should contact SLOCOE payroll. If you are a district office employee and need assistance with CalSTRS or CalPERS-related matters, contact the SLOCOE payroll unit.
BUSINESS SYSTEMS
Business Systems staff provides daily technical support to all users of the system, develops and delivers in-person and online professional development courses and resources to improve staff use of the financial system to support programs and services. Our team is the liaison between QSS developers and the users by reporting issues to them and to the support forum in order to find resolutions as quickly as possible. Quintessential School Systems (QSS/Harris) is a complete administrative solution for public school districts. It is a fully integrated system that includes General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Invoice Billing Management (IBM), Absence Tracking, Payroll, Fixed Assets, Stores Inventory, Personnel, Position Control, and Requisition Routing. QSS/QCC is utilized by K-12 schools, county offices of education, and community colleges nationwide. QSS/QCC system services and support that we provide for the County Office and local school districts are as follows:
- Ongoing maintenance of the servers and associated peripherals
- Employee Self-Service (ESS) website
- Software update and patch installation
- User security and account management
- System administration
- Payroll printing and reporting
- Accounts payable printing and reporting
- Routine periodic report runs
- Quarterly DE6 reporting
- Annual processes such as fiscal year transition
- W-2 printing and reporting
- 1099 printing and reporting
- 1095 printing and reporting
Payroll Manager
Meghan Knable
mknable@slocoe.org
805-782-7294
Classified Coordinator, Payroll/Retirement
Kim Boyd
kboyd@slocoe.org
805-782-7223
Business Systems Coordinator and Data Processing Coordinator.
Business Systems Specialist I
Elena Geiger
egeiger@slocoe.org
805-782-7278
QSS System Support & Training
Data Processing (Payroll, Accounts Payable, W2, 1095 and 1099 Production)
Payroll/Retirement Specialist II
Julie Robin
jrobin@slocoe.org
805-782-7315
SLOCOE Payroll
Payroll/Retirement Specialist
Payroll/Retirement Specialist
Ashley Garcia
agarcia@slocoe.org
805-782-7242
Shandon Payroll, SIPE Payroll
Countywide Voluntary Deduction Processing
CalPERS Retirement Remittance & Reporting
Payroll/Retirement Specialist
Nancy Guillen
nguillen@slocoe.org
805-782-7224
Pleasant Valley and Grizzly Payroll
SLOCOE Payroll Support
Voluntary Deductions
CalSTRS Retirement Support
Payroll/Retirement Specialist
Elizabeth Ortiz
eortiz@slocoe.org
805-782-7217
Cayucos Payroll
CalPERS Retirement Regulations & Reporting
Garnishments
Voluntary Reductions
Accounting Technician
Liliana Galindo
805-782-7346
lgalindo@slocoe.org
Health Benefit Payments Coordinator
Retire Health Insurance
Payroll Warrant Cancellations, Stop & Reissue
Payroll Batch Recon
Direct Deposits
Contact
- San Luis Obispo County Office of Education
- Office of James J. Brescia, Ed.D.
- 3350 Education Drive
- San Luis Obispo, CA 93405
- Tel: 805-543-7732
- Contact SLOCOE
- Contact Webmaster