001Hello, Bloomington Public Schools community. I'm School Board Chair Matt Dymoke. And I'm Superintendent Eric Melbye. And we're here with a quick update from our Monday, November 10th school board meeting. So we started by approving the teacher contract with the Bloomington Federation of Teachers for the 2025 through 2027 years. It'll be a salary increase of 2.3% in the first year and 2% in the second year. So we're super excited to have this contract settled and ready to move forward. It's great news. This is one of several contracts in progress with our employee bargaining groups. And typically the teachers are the first to be finalized. Setting salary agreements helps us move forward with the district budgeting process. Some other business we took care of, at the board meeting, the school board canvassed the November 4th election results.
002What that means is the results were officially reviewed and accepted. One new board member, Ted Moore, will join the board in January, along with Tom Bennett, Dawn Steigauf and Matt Dymoke, who won their reelection bids. And they will serve four year terms beginning January 5th. Incredibly excited to be coming back to the board table come January, and also want to say a big thank you to Beth Beebe, who served two terms on the board and did not run for reelection. She's currently serving as our treasurer and will retire at the end of December. So thank you, Beth, for your service. And finally, we approved the Edgenuity contract, which is a system that helps with credit recovery for our students over at Choice Academy. So really excited to to see what work we can do with
003Edgenuity. So that's it for our short board recap from our short board business meeting early in November. We will have a longer recap from a longer board business meeting at the end of the month. Awesome. We'll see you then.