001[Music] Good evening. I call the May 22nd, 2025 meeting of the Park Hill Board of Education to order. Mr. Monscus is absent this evening. I would like to remind the board of our norms. Uh stay in the role of a board member, be respectful, be inclusive, be prepared, and be missiondriven. And our district's mission statement is through the expertise of an engaged staff, the Park Hill School District provides a relevant education in a safe, caring environment to prepare each student for success in life. Um, our first uh item on the agenda tonight is the adoption of the agenda. So, I will need a motion and a second to adopt the May 22nd, 2025 agenda as presented. When you make a motion or second, please also say your name so we can accurately capture that for
002the minutes. So move Sherica Barnes. Seconded. Harrison Todd. Okay. I have a motion from Miss Barnes and a second by Mr. Atab to adopt the agenda as presented. Uh Dr. Kimell, are there any modifications? There are none tonight. Thank you. Okay. Uh board, do we have any modifications? All right, seeing none, all those in favor, uh raise your hand and please keep them raised so we can get an accurate count. All right. Um any abstain this evening? All right. Uh motion carries 6. We'll now move on to our um action item for this evening. Uh item 3.1, approval of the teachers negotiated agreement for July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2028. And I'll turn it over to uh Dr. Kimble and Dr. Dylan. Yeah, good evening board. Thank you uh again for adding this meeting.
003Um, we are excited to present our outcomes of this negotiation with our Park Hill National Education Association or PHNA. And by doing this tonight, you're allowing us to uh be able to communicate with our staff so they'll know outcomes by the end of the school year and won't have to wait until your June 12th meeting. So, thank you again for adding this to your calendar. Uh, we're going to have Dr. Dylan, assistant superintendent for human resources and Mandy Fraer who is PHNA president are going to provide a high level presentation of the uh results of our negotiation and process. And so I'll turn it over to them at this time. Dr. Dylan. Okay. Thank you, Dr. Kimberell. I'm going to attempt to share my screen. Are you able to see that? Okay. Awesome. And Mandy,
004are you with me? You must be on the second screen. Um, so thank you again. I want to echo what Dr. Campbell said. Thank you for calling a special meeting. I know you're very busy. Um, it's been a very productive negotiations season. Um, what we're uh Mandy Freyer and I are um what we have for you tonight is a um tentative negotiate agreement for your consideration. Um, Mandy, that has been ratified by the teachers. Is that correct? Yes. Uh we are very pleased with the results of the um ratification vote. We had a 98% positive um vote for to ratify. Okay. Thanks, Mandy. Um you do have the redlinined agreement, the entire negotiated agreement, redline version, as well as the proposed salary schedule in your board item. Um so if you want to look at
005all the all the details, they're there um for you. Uh before we tell you uh just briefly about the tenative agreement, we do Mandy and I would like to thank the committees. They worked very diligently and very thoughtfully to get to the tenative agreement that you have um in front of you tonight. And so these are those uh the people who served on those committees. Uh so I the language portion when we talk about negotiations there's language and there's compensation. So the language portion which is the negotiated agreement part is a three-year agreement. So 25 to 28. The compensation piece which is a salary schedule will be um a one year and it will be renegotiated next year. So again language and compensation and that's how Mandy and I are kind of split it tonight
006to tell you about um this tenative agreement. So, uh, the first item in terms of language is just that the district office and the early childhood center will have representatives on the calendar committee and the policy committee. That was a request from PHNA. So, we've added that um into the language. Um, the next language piece is release time for IEPs. So currently our special educators, our special education teachers have three days of release time to work on IEP paperwork, processes, measurement, things like that. Um as of next year they with this tenative agreement they would have four. So that is a change. Mandy, would you like to talk about the sickly pool changes? Yeah. So we um this the tenative agreement um in this area would um cleans up language uh related to the sick
007leave pool. Certified staff donate days to the pool um to replenish it each year and this will just help us create a more efficient system to manage its use. um bereavement leave. Uh we're really proud of the work we did in this in this amendment. Um we wanted to update the language to include uh residents of household and relatives of re residents of household. This is to recognize and honor the dynamic nature of families of all of our families compensation. Um, we had two major goals. Um, as we worked with the compensation, the new salary schedule. Um, we're really we were really happy that the election allowed us to do some significant work in this area. Um, and so we have our voters to thank for that. Um, but also the work that was done
008by everybody that was supporting the the campaign. Um, our goals here were recruitment and retention. And we believe that the salary schedule with a minimum salary of 48,521 25, excuse me, will really help us some recruit some good quality educators coming right out um coming into education. And then the average salary increase of 8.2% which we have not seen um ever in my time in Park Hill uh for returning certificated teachers and staff. every salary, every certificated staff will receive a a step in lane movement if applicable and the district will contribute 5% um a 5% increase to employee benefits. Uh the other area of compensation that we really dug into were writers. Um what you see here is the list of additions. So these are new writers to the writer list. So writers are
009the compensation we pay our staff to sponsor and coach activities. Um so uh these are the new writers based on new activities. And then these are the changes that uh we did a compensation study last year and really looked at how competitive our writers were with um surrounding districts. And these were the areas where uh we felt we needed to increase our writer amounts in order to continue to attract and retain uh coaches and sponsors for um for our students. You'll also see in the redline version um the extended days. This really isn't new. This is just we were uh people were working extended days beyond their contract and we needed to make sure to document that within the negotiated agreement. So this is really just documenting our practice. Um in this section of compensation,
010we were um we discussed the the fact that when we make changes to the index, um the $30.80, uh that amount comes from what the amount of our index is. And rather than continually amending um to have that number be stated in the agreement, uh we simply want to state that the coverage for teachers who use plan time to sub in a classroom would be um at the percentage of the index per hour. Um, and then we added a new article to this section uh because we wanted to also um provide compensation to teachers who sometimes receive students when we have a sub shortage and um we need to split those students into other classrooms in the same grade level. So maybe five students go into one classroom, five in another, and five in another.
011that this would allow for compensation for taking on those extra students for the duration of the day and being responsible for their instruction and supervision. Um, this one this one is to uh we clarified some language here. Um, extra duty. This article has always historically been applied to teachers who uh use their plan time to teach an extra course, an additional course. Um and then the compensation change we made in this um we're happy to announce will be based on the employees contracted um base salary rather than um a I think previously it was on the index and that's it that's yeah that's the end of our high level presentation. Yep. So, we are um I'm going to stop sharing, but we are happy to answer any questions that you might have. Dr. Dylan, I'd
012also like to add uh just a thank you to PHNA and the group. Um but for the board, just so you know, timelinewise, uh this is several months of work. uh tra the the interests that we had from both sides were traded uh I think it was prior to the December break and and so this has been something that we have met multiple times about back and forth and uh it has been a very very good relationship with uh our administration and our PHNA and so I just want you to know that the the process I'm not sure the number of meetings that we we held but at least formally there were uh multiple meetings about these going back and forth to make sure that we arrived at good results and and outcomes for uh
013the entire staff and uh present you a a really good package for our teachers. So with that we we take any questions. Well, I'll just make a comment. I think the 98% uh in favor of ratification speaks for itself and I appreciate Oh, go ahead, G. Go ahead. I just want to say I appreciate all the time. I know we've kind of been updated as throughout this process. So, uh, doing this last presentation kind of brings it all together and thankful for the committee and everybody doing the hard work to get to this point for our staff and teachers. Yeah, I'll just echo that. I so appreciate the committee's work and um, all the work that went into this and um, I really appreciate our voters um, passing um, the election and being able to
014do this. it. Um I think it's really great to keep the great teachers that we have and we value them so much and I feel like we can um this is a great step in recognizing that. So I appreciate it and I'd just like to jump in also and say thank you so much to everybody who's been involved uh here that this is such a great step for all district stakeholders, staff, teachers. I thrilled Again, thanks everybody for their hard work. Um, and I know extra hours and staying late and after a long day and still talking and negotiating with each other and so glad that it all came out to a wonderful conclusion for everyone. Agreed. Thank you so much. Okay. Then um I will bring a motion then. Um I'll need a motion
015and a second to approve item 3.1 approval of teachers negotiated agreement for July 1, 2025 through June 30th uh 2028 as presented. Uh when you make a motion or a second, please also say your name so we can accurately cor capture that for the minutes. So moved. So moved. Leila Barber. Second. Brandy Woodley. All right. I have a motion from Mrs. Barber and a second by Mrs. Woodley to approve um the approval of the teachers negotiated agreement for July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2028. Um all those in favor, uh raise your hand and please keep them raised so we can get an accurate count. All right. Any abstain? Okay. Motion carries. 6. All right. Um, and I will also echo the thanks to everyone involved to uh to get this meeting in uh before
016the end of the year. Um, so appreciate everyone taking uh this their time tonight to get this done and um we'll uh meeting is adjourned at 5:45 p.m. Um, if everyone could uh mute their team's mics and hold on um until the live stream ends. Um, thank you.