001Okay. October 8th at 3:45, we have a public hearing to hear any comments regarding the tenative agreement with the uh BEA and the Benton Community School Corporation trustees. Um in summary, this is the contract tenative agreement is listed on the website. Uh in summary, just quickly, it's a two-year contract term. We reformatted the contract. We have updated the uh evaluation and grid placement. Uh we've added language uh on how to place the teachers on the grid. We have uh updated our insurance um benefit package. Um the ECA schedule was updated. Again, all of that is on the website. So at this time we open it up for anybody here in attendance to comment uh on this tenative agreement. >> I'm happy that we reached one. >> So that was BEA president. >> Okay. >> Everybody
002seemed pleased with the result. >> Yeah, there was a lot of questions but um yeah, overall everyone was very happy, very excited about the family insurance. That was the biggest that was the biggest one for sure. Um and then um always happy to see a salary increase um with the grid and keep and then we are also happy with the two-year contract too. So that it just makes next year easier to get everything ready for the new year. So >> sounds good. So since we don't have anybody else here to make uh comments before we close the hearing uh I will emphasize that on Monday night at the board meeting it will be up for ratification approval uh board approval and upon board approval then we can start the the payroll issue and aspect to
003it of of back pay. Okay. So we will close the public hearing. Thank you.