001I stand before you proud to present our collective bargaining agreement between the lawen Education Association good good morning good morning I was a cheerleader I can do this without good morning Dr smoth Madam president members of the board I proudly stand before you to bring together to bring us our Collective barain Agreement by the Lea and the Board of Education thank you all for being here as we begin with our our CBA for 2324 we'd like to talk about the new money that has been brought to us and our average teach pay increase will be from 5.62% to 18.99% a significant raise for our teachers we are looking at a $4,000 raise for teachers that are returning from the 2223 school year so that is for retention and for evaluation and experience our second point
002is that we are looking to raise all of our new hire Sals on our new higher salary schedule up by $2,000 and that will our second bullet is the teacher compression the teacher compression impacts 72 teachers and what we're looking at is teachers who have experience from 9 to 19 years adjusting their salary on that salary schedule so that they are making what a new teacher comes in to our district making our third area is a loyalty segment of $1,000 for teachers that are returning to our district we have a potential cash balance sipen of $1,000 if our cash balance is 15 million on December 31st of 2023 our health insurance we are looking at a 7% 7.1% increase that will be split between our employees and the district we had a laser which was
0033 million and we took some money from our insurance reserves plus 1.8 to cover that 3 million my notes are over there and our next one that we're looking at is our 401 retirement plan match and So currently we're at 3% and we're looking at raising that the three and a quarter and then if we have 50 new students that are here as of our February amm it will go up another qu% of our mat so these are the funds that we're looking at for our teachers our two additional ones are the district SI day buback which means that if we have a teacher um that has over 100 SI days they can buy back up to five days and um they'll have to buy those back together and it will be two times a
004year that we'll look at doing that in January and June and then the language that has changed in our CBA is looking at opening up our SI enrollment instead of the one time a year that we have in the beginning of the year we'll also open it up second semester so that teachers that move here from other places that our new hires have an opportunity to enroll in our SI Bank we're also looking at our various ecas which are our extracurricular activity positions we have quite a few um positions to recommend that were're accepted and we have some language in that we have a memorandum of understanding for book Park Elementary as they continue to hire teachers those teachers will get um additional for working at a school that is in a turnaround Improvement plan
005and that is our CBA presented to you in the total C the thank you very much Johnson thank you m okay um do we have any questions as being a public hearing are there questions or comments from the public that we need to hear board do you have any questions or comments about this agreement hearing no questions uh we will move on to we'll close public hearing present we'll move on to the opening of our meeting M Johnson for our meeting um and by the way uh we will vote on um the teacher contract at our November 13th meeting this is just a required public hearing to accept the public comment okay now we're going to open our meeting um stand with me pleaseed Ali Al unit states of americe Miss Johnson did you please
006share the information on the classified administrative salary I bring you our administrator and classified races recommendations and if they were employed by and we are looking at making recommendations for classified salary rates that was done in a audit that we did comparing districts across Maran County the recommendations of the classified study comparison we're looking at the department of exceptional Learners needing the highest level of support so we are proposing an increase for our resource our life skills our functional academics our Ed and our one toone IAS and we have posted our current rates and what we are recommending for the increase for our life skills positions we are also looking at proposing benefits our next category is our food services we are looking at our subay for our CAF members that come in and so
007we have the current rate of 1571 and then 22 employees we're looking at increasing that to 1575 to 1675 in our transportation division we are looking at the bus monitors having an increase in their salary and our security and safety we're looking at our those that take care of all of our convin our firemen and our our security of raising their rates from 26 to $30 an hour and $ 30 to $40 an hour that was looking at acrossing County and wanted to be very [Music] competitive our next category is looking at our instructional assistance and as we think about our fastest growing population how can we continue to be competitive with our enl instructional assistance and so we have our enl bilingual currently making 1881 and we are proposing a rate change to 1881
008to 22 depending on their their years of experience we're looking at proposals for our media IAS our classroom IAS our student support assistance and looking at increases for their current rates to one that will make them highly competitive our business office now that we are having annual audits adding a position of an audit specialist and our technology has been reorganized under the new leadership of the CTO that has come in those are recommendations for our administrators and classified positions are there any questions as there are no questions I thank you Miss Johnson and I would like just to say that we are thrilled to be able to offer as another historic raise for our teachers you are the engine of our district and um I think it reflects pressure on our state government to pay
009teachers properly and I just hope this trend continues and makes this possible for us to do for you every single year so um little can't do it without the classified staff and the administrators as well so we're we're very grateful very grateful um for have any comments no comments do we have a motion to M second than