001we we call this meeting to order you're asking mr russell would you like to lead us in the pledge i pledge allegiance 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 thank you tonight we have a short or tonight i'm used to saying that it feels like night it's still dark out this morning we have a short agenda dealing with the teacher contract has everybody had the opportunity to review the agenda and does anybody have any questions do i hear a motion mr president mr president i mean we accept the agenda as presented do i hear a second second i'll take that as a ding third all those in favor please signify by saying aye aye
002opposed the agenda is adopted now is our moment for public comments i believe no one signed up for public comments so we'll we'll move to our first action item our first action item is to consider the 2020 2021 teacher contract mr jason taylor assistant superintendent of hr and technology will will do the presentation mr taylor the floor is yours thank you this morning i'm presenting the 2020-2021 master teacher contract for your approval on september 21st 2020 through formal bargaining a tentative agreement was reached with the united teachers association of center grove utag in regards to wage and wage related benefits that would be included in this new agreement on september 28 2020 the utag membership voted to ratify the contract in october 22nd a pre-ratification hearing was held by this board some key key items
003in the agreement are a two percent raise for all teachers and this includes row advancement and a point four eight percent increase to the salary schedule a one-time stipend of one point five two percent for the top row an increase to eca's of two point or two percent as well and then some changes to the eca schedule um and positions listed there and finally some changes to health care which would include an average employee increase of 1.4 percent the district share increase would increase by 8.1 percent and we would provide a one-time insurance holiday in february of 2021. the final change i'd like to highlight is an increase in the 403 b match it is currently set at 800 we would increase that to 825. this is a one-year contract for the 2020-21 school year
004the costs in this contract have been included in the 2021 budget and i would be happy to answer any questions the board members may have thank you mr taylor does anyone have any questions none at this time i just have one clarification and i i know you said a one-day insurance holiday which you're referring to actually it's insurance premium yes i'm sorry thank you for clarifying that you're fine it took me about a year and a half to figure that one out when i was first on the board so yeah appreciate that thank you any other questions or comments do i hear a motion mr president i move that we approve the the 2020 2021 master teacher contract as presented a lot of 20's in there there is sorry do i hear a second i'll
005second thank you mr alexander thank you mr hubbard all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed the eyes have it thank you appreciate everyone's efforts on that yes thank you mr alexander thank you now moving on to the next action item it's a motion to amend level a b and c salary and wage schedules reflecting sally and salary and wage increase once again mr uh jason taylor assistant superintendent of hr technology i'll turn the floor over to you this morning we are recommending a base salary and wage increase of 2 percent for level a b c and some level b d positions this will include all administrators and permanent support staff coaches salaries outside of the bargaining unit will also receive an increase of two percent this will be retroactive to the first
006employee work day on or after july 1st 2020. i will bring the revised statement of benefits for your approval to the october 22nd meeting and the salary changes will be updated at that time these salary increases have been built into the 2021 budget thank you mr taylor do we have any questions mr alexander no questions for me i do uh just just because it's not listed and you verbally said in some d give an example of what's a level d uh you guys might be familiar with mr zarrow he actually is a level d employee for us in the technology department but he does work a perm more permanent schedule he'd be one that would be included we also have some activity rates that we change dr long has security officers that perform extra duties
007from time to time for us we may look to change some of those we'll bring all that in october so they may be another level it could be or it could be just more hourly folks who maybe their wage rate has fallen behind what the the competitive rate is and so we look to adjust those at the same time but anyone who's like a standard working a lot that just happens to be in that level of employee if we go ahead and make those changes any other questions or comments do i hear a motion mr president i move that we amend level a b and c and i think i need to include some d some of those d's as jason mentioned uh wage schedules such that other employees will receive a two percent wage
008increase effective july 1 2020. do i hear a second i'll say thank you mr alexander mr russell all those in favor please signify by saying i i opposed the ice have it thank you seeing no other business are there any announcements that anyone has tonight is the candidate forum it will be virtual uh is it done is the link on the school corporation okay go to the ad foundation and you'll see where the link is to watch it virtually it's on facebook live and facebook live yes any other announcements mr hubbard i do have one uh i just want to let you guys know that on the october 21st c9 is hosting a memorial dedication for andrew st john who uh passed away about a year ago in a military accident so we're going to
009do a dedication for him and rename ability in his honor on the 21st it's i don't believe it's a tuesday no wednesday at uh 2 30 in the afternoon you guys are all welcome to come thank you so much mr alexander any announcements uh none for me dr arkanov any announcements uh no i don't have anything at this point i'll just remind everyone that this was a special meeting so our next regularly scheduled meeting will be thursday evening on october 22nd at seven o'clock right here in the same place um i have my calendar a board work session that day too that is correct it's an executive session yeah well it's an exact yeah not a work session during the day it starts in the afternoon 11 30 11 30 at this point and they'll
010be lunch into it hearing no further uh comments don't hear our motion for adjournment so move second okay thank you all all those in favor signify by saying aye aye opposed we're adjourned