001back from the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God liberty and justice all right welcome to a special media degree Castle School Board um I guess first item on the agenda is adjustments to the engineer Mr nope there are no adjustments to the agenda for this evening okay um which brings us to item three do we want to hold off on that and because people want to we open up for comment about the okay well that's uh the next item is public comments on agenda items you don't have any comments a lot of people I've spoke to say that this is really Revitalize a lot of their opinions about our district and what we consider important in trying to keep those valuable members is I know
002that I greatly appreciate it expressed as a bit thank you very much for your hard work and thank you for being very very clear I know there have been a few times this was God's planes so thank you thank you appreciate it anyone else okay hearing no more comments next item on the agenda is alternative agreement for the 2023 Collective bargain agreement between Greencastle Community Schools and the Greencastle classroom Teachers Association Mr Gibney yeah so we've posted the attendant agreement on our website gcta has met and has ratified and by law we just have to essentially discuss or provide kind of a summary degree Pond terms and so really there's not a whole lot to it we are going down to two column salary schedule eliminate a doctor or it column we don't have any
003employees any longer in that in that third column we are moving the base of the scale for bachelor's from 40 to 42 000. and for masters from 42 to 43 000. that'll also obviously adjust adjust the top um also in that newly hired teachers we replaced with so we're doing kind of a one-time adjustment of where teachers are actually placed on the scale or schedule excuse me and uh so we looked at on actual gears actual documented years experience because there were many years over time there's never anything right or wrong but we have people all over the map and it makes it very difficult to place new teachers and of course you know if you have a teacher with 10 years experience it'd be nice if they made the same everybody that had 10
004years experience made the same amount of money and so um making that adjustment a one-time adjustment and putting everyone really kind of where they belong or should be we'll help with that and it'll also hopefully allow us to keep some of our veteran teachers to where you don't have to go to the neighboring District to get your actual years experience because that's kind of been the the game that we've been having to play so to speak over the years and then um we've just had just a minor language changes and then with the ECA schedule if you remember last year we indexed to a starting salary of 40 000. and so we've adjusted that it'll be indexed to forty two thousand so essentially the floor the bachelor's column we cleaned up a couple of the
005grandfather grandfather DCA positions that are no longer um those people have left or are no longer serving in those roles so those have dropped off um so over time we'll have everybody fully on the new ECA schedule um and then we we did we did a bit of a cleanup of adding a couple of uh ECA positions we didn't have a listing for the ethics Bowl sponsor we have an Ethics Bowl team they're very active they do a good job and want to support the person putting in the time with the kids for that we have a preschool Lead Teacher just with the structure in our setup when Mrs Seeger left and it involves more duties through that individual and so yeah preschool Lead Teacher to the ECA schedule and then we have a lot
006of teachers in the high school they go above and beyond in offering or working towards offering more dual credit college level courses AP those Advanced courses and so with those courses there's a lot more expected at times and so adding a stipend ECA stipend for each of those courses taught to where again going above and beyond doing that for our kids it's good for our kids in school you know something that some neighboring districts do as well so hopefully that'll help us be more competitive because when you have someone that's put in the leg work and earned all of those additional credits beyond the master's degree in order to be able to teach in the NAACP English course you want to be able to keep them and so we also will be able to compensation
007for that so I think I don't think I've missed anything else those are the main main items and so we're not taking any action tonight we just have to discuss the terms of the tentative agreement um before uh bringing in for uh board approval at a future meeting okay so your your on the new higher schedule here that placement schedule you got a through CC are basically this is I mean I'm assuming as before level a is year one being year two all that um so is this essentially what a current teacher makes like okay a 10-year teacher with a bachelor's is J so they're making 50 000 194. no no because we have an old scale gotcha and so all of those other levels have been adjusted accordingly but this is just where new
008hires will come in this is where new hires will come in but this is what our current teachers will always move to so everyone will be on this these update updates yeah that's what I did okay if a 10-year teacher here is level J yes so they're making 50 000 and 194. they will be yes we'll have everybody that's at 10 years at the same level and a new hire coming in we'll go to that correct they would we we would want to keep everybody at the same level gotcha yeah do we not have any teachers over 29 years and stop me that stops IT this is the max 74 8 or 73 123. I don't have yeah I don't just the top of the scale would be the last step yes gotcha yep so
009anyone over about if you've been here 33 years you're still at levels correct yeah yep you top out we don't keep going fast yep well I'm a big proponent of keeping the teachers here yeah and working hard to deserve what they get so yeah yep yep okay so that was that no nothing needed okay well that is the end of this can I get a motion to reserve adjourn okay I have a motion the second all in favor aye aye all opposed motion passes well thanks again for your comments and for coming and