001Ready? I'm ready. >> All right. >> Yep. >> Call the order the uh special schoolboard meeting. Uh today is Monday, October 6, 2025. If you would please uh uh call the meeting to order. Uh, please stand and join me in the pledge of >> allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Okay, let's do roll call. Secretaryqu >> here. >> Miss Batty >> present. Miss Farley >> present. >> I am present. Vice President Jackson absent. President Sebert >> here. >> All right. 61. You have quum. >> Okay. Public comment. There is none. Um so the first order of business uh is the tenative agreement between the Leaport Community School Corporation
002and the Leaport Federation of Teachers for the 2025 2026 school year. So we're opening up the public meeting or uh what's the word I'm looking for? >> It it is a public meeting. So um I can review the >> absolutely. >> So we are required um by state law once we have reached a tenative agreement to post that tenative agreement on our school website um which and that was done last week and then 72 hours after that we are um required to hold a public meeting where we review the terms of the uh tenative agreement. So we have had that posted on our website for 72 hours. Um so in this meeting I'm just going to review the terms that are established within the tenative agreement. Um and then our plan following this meeting will
003be um for the um tenative agreement and the new master uh contract to be brought to the board at our regular meeting next Monday. Um so our um tenative agreement specifies a couple of different provisions. Um, first we have agreed to offering a retirement buyout to teachers who um will be 60 years of age by the start of next school year. They must also have 10 years of tenure um with Leaport Community School Corporation and we will utilize an application process via Google form which will open in January for teachers who are interested to apply. Um the buyouts will be available on a firstcom basis. We will have up to five buyouts available for teachers assigned to grades 7 through 12, up to 10 for teachers assigned to grades preK through six, and up to
004five buyouts available for teachers assigned to positions which are funded through the special education cooperative. Um, the terms of the buyout include a total of $10,000 to be deposited into the teachers 401A account paid in two two installments of $5,000 um to be deposited first by September 1 of 2026, the second by September 1 of 2027. And then an annual contribution of $7,500 to be paid toward the cost of a single health insurance plan um continuing until the teacher becomes eligible for Medicare coverage. Um the second piece of the tenative agreement includes the base salary increases. Um increases will be based on two factors evaluation and academic need. Evaluation um includes teachers who had an effective evaluation an evaluation rating of effective or highly effective with Leaport Community Schools um in the 2425 school year.
005Academic need is defined as teachers who completed the requirements for the early literacy endorsement or are credentials that are approved by the higher learning commission to teach dual enrollment classes by the start of the 2526 school year. If teachers satisfy the evaluation factor, they will receive a base salary increase of $2,000 and teachers who satisfy the academic need factor will receive a base salary increase of $225. um new teacher base pay will be increased to $47,500. And then finally, um there are changes to the extracurricular schedule um that were uh presented by the extracurricular committee um and agreed upon by the negotiations team and that schedule is linked on our website for specifics to the different positions that are there. Um we're very grateful to that committee that worked very hard over the past year.
006It was a lot of time put into reviewing all of the positions and shifting it over to a factor-based scale that is based on uh teacher pay. So that um we had prior to this not looked at extracurricular pay in over 10 years. Um so those inc those uh stipen amounts hadn't been increased in quite a long time and now um adding it to a schedule that's based on teacher pay will prevent that from happening in the future. So, those are the terms of the tenative agreement and like I said, we will plan to bring this back to the board for approval at our regular meeting next Monday. >> So, I think it's part of the hearing. We need to let the public speak if they want. Anybody from the public wants to speak? Okay.
007So, um any questions or comments from anybody? All right. So, uh, there is no other business. Any board comment outside of Sand just talked about. Okay. So, future board meeting, the next board meeting is, uh, October 13th, the week from today, at 6 p.m. That's our regular regularly scheduled board meeting. Um, so hearing that, is there a motion to adjurnn? >> So moved. >> Thank you, Justin. A second. Thank you, Jen. All those in favor say I. >> I. You're