001Jason, >> I'd like to call to order this uh public hearing. Please stand and join 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. >> Okay. So the purpose of this public hearing is in 2019 the Indiana General Assembly enacted legislation Senate ruled act 390 and codified Indiana code 20-29-6-9 paragraph A which requires a school employer to conduct a public meeting to discuss a tenative collective bargaining agreement at least 72 hours uh before it is ratified. uh by the school employer. Um this statute further requires that school employer post notice of the time and location of the public meeting and attentive collective bargaining agreement on the school employer's internet
002website at least 72 hours prior to the public meeting which we've done. Uh therefore the board of trustees posted the collective uh the tenative collective bargaining agreement document on our website as required by law and it's holding this public hearing in accordance with Senate role act 390. The tenative agreement contains the salary wages and wage related fringe benefits negotiated by the parties for corporation teachers for the 2025 2026 school year. The document has been available for review by the public on our corporation school corporation website and the public is permitted to provide comment on the document at this meeting. Uh as far as terms of the agreement, I'll turn it over to Dr. Williams and let him run through uh some of the highlights of the tenative agreement. Mr. or Dr. Williams. >> All right.
003Thank you, Mr. Green. Uh as we stated that we have reached a tenative agreement uh with the SVEA. Uh as you can see on the agenda, there are bullet points for each uh item that we've reached an agreement on or that has changed. And so I will go ahead and highlight and uh describe some of those uh changes. So for 5.2, it's a one-year agreement uh to start off with uh for this 2526 school year. For 5.2, to the attendance incentive. The language has been updated to increase the U retirement contribution from $250 to $500 for a teacher who misses zero days per semester. And it will increase from $125 to $250 for a teacher who misses one or two lead days uh or who has one or two lead days per semester. Uh 5.4
004dual credit advanced placement courses. Since this is new language, teachers with the responsibilities of teaching dual credit courses or advanced placement courses will receive a $500 stipen per year per course or per block of students because some courses have the same students for multiple blocks. So, it would still be the same planning and same same grade books. Um, the totality of the stipen will not exceed $1,500 per teacher per school year. The stipen will be paid out no later than June 30th of the contracted year. The next uh item here is 5.5 unused lead days upon retirement. New language. Teachers who have been with the South Vermillion Community School Corporation for at least 15 consecutive years upon their retirement will be compensated at a rate of $115 per day for every unused lead day that
005they have accumulated. Uh this has been an issue. um as someone goes to retire, uh we don't have we didn't have any incentive and so we had a teacher missing 90 days or 80 days in a school year. Um we're still paying them plus we're paying a substitute. Uh so this uh incentivizes teachers to hold on to those days and get paid out at the end of the year and plus the instruction in the classroom is uh staying on Q as well. Um, for 6.1, the salary range, uh, this is updated and new. Uh, at the beginning of the 2025 2026 school year, the salaries of the returning full-time teachers were between 44,000 and 79,000 based off of last year. Under this compensation plan, teachers will receive a $2,500 salary increase. And, uh, we will
006have that split up between uh, evaluation and academic needs and so forth there. that will be uh visible in the contract. Teachers who hold an early literacy endorsement, this is new, and possess a bachelor's degree will be placed in a third column. There are now four columns on the grid instead of two um because we have to differentiate for teachers who have received an early lit literacy endorsement. And so that will be $250 uh higher on the pay scale uh for each step. After salary uh increases are awarded and the early literacy endorsement columns are considered. Full-time teachers will be earning between starting $45,250 to topping out at $80,500. The next uh item on this is uh 6.3 and this will be deleted language because uh this past July the new legislation um we're not
007going to have uh you cannot uh base a needs improvement or improvement necessary evaluation and hold the pay raise. So now that language has been deleted. Um and that's 6.3. The language read, "A teacher who receives an evaluation rating of ineffective or improvement necessary during the prior school year is not eligible for any salary increase and remains at their prior year salary." And then the teachers in their first two years of instructing students who receive an evaluation rating of ineffective or improvement necessary. So we cannot hold uh the pay for uh evaluation based on on this particular item anymore. Moving on to 6.4.3. 4.3. Um, this is just a a correction. Um, it said academic need and it was for stipens only. A few years ago, we put this into play for uh high needs
008um area. So, if we had a position that did not have any applicants or we had one applicant, we could offer a stipen um onetime stipen for that high needs area. But the language that was written under there was the attendance language for the teachers incentive. So, I just changed that language. Um, and the SVA and us got together on that and took care of that. Um, back to uh the distribution and the movement. So, for the $2,500, $625 uh is based on the evaluation rating, which like I said, it really doesn't matter what that is. Um, at this point we are going to look at revamping the teacher evaluation tool during this school year and form a committee for that since the language has changed on legislation. Um, $625 for acquiring uh 120 or
009more days for inperson that's 25% of the raise and then $1,250 the one step is due to the academic needs uh language that we had to add this year. Um, new hires we already talked about and and the updated language as far as reflecting the early literacy uh endorsement. Um, and so the base entry for early literacy endorsement for bachelors is 45,500 and with a masters is 48,000. Item 7.4 parental leave. Um, this is new language. uh and to aid in the physical recovery of the birth mother maternity leave days not took seat 20 days in the first 6 weeks immediately uh which would be the day after following the birth of the child may be requested by the birth mother in writing to the superintendent's office um and so I wanted to put some
010kind of language in there from maternity leave and we we agreed on this because um obviously there's a lot of different leads you can have this day and age maternity paternity um and for different reasons for this year for this particular reason we are focusing on the recovery of the body um and not more of you know what they would say as a bonding time or something like that we might look at that in the future um but this maternity leave reflects 20 days uh for physical recovery um and if someone would have the baby in June then they would not get those days if they have the baby uh in August um at the beginning of school year then they would get 20 days in the first 30 days um they just ask that
011we be consistent and be transparent between the union and that's when those requests can come. Um medical insurance uh we agreed uh to uh pay the increase. It's 1% increase on health benefits this year with the WBWCI. Um and so we agreed to pay that full increase. Um and then with the extracurricular schedule, uh we did uh obviously lose our elementary art class last year and we put it steam together. Um and and we realized that some of the uh painting or clay or stuff would not be el you know eligible to be done in the steam classes. Um so we created an elementary art workshop for elementary students to come to the high school and uh meet with our art teachers at the middle school and high school to get those skills still. And
012I request that $1,000 siphon be put in for uh two positions in the uh CBA. Uh, the next thing is 10% increase for all ECA positions. A few years ago, we did a 25% increase. Excuse me, I think it was two years ago at this point. We did a 25% increase. And my goal is to continue to increase those positions as we continue to need good coaches, um, good sponsors and so forth. And it's get gets harder and harder to find. Um, and so instead of taking a 25 or 30% hit all at once, uh, we will take a 10% uh, raise this year. So, for example, if a um AM bus supervisor makes $600, they will go to 660. If a um you know, another position makes $3,000, they will go to 3,300. Uh
013so, every position 10% there. With that being said, I believe that summarizes the changes. >> Thank you, Dr. Williams. Is there any questions about those on behalf of the board? >> Oh, no. Excuse me. On item 55, the understanding is still that if you leave on your own accord those unused days, >> correct? So if they retire at the end of 15 years, yes. But if they resign on their own or they've been here for 12 years uh or something of that nature, no. They only get paid out if they've been here for at least 15 consecutive years at retirement. um not if they choose to take another job or leave the corporation for other reasons. >> Yeah, we had a misunderstanding several years ago and yeah, we had some hard failures. So, >> okay.
014So you'll approve for that accordingly on on the balance she >> because honestly it almost is a wash um for those who now this wasn't in every case um but for the most part we would have somebody who would take 50 or 60 days you know every every long weekend or every and like you said they earn the benefit uh they acrew it um but we're paying a sub you know between 90 and $115 a day on top of what we're paying them. disrupts disrupts the education >> do we have we know what that total liability is right now >> uh for this I mean I don't have anybody in Q that I think uh I heard is going to retire but as far as it looks to be about a a 9 to $10,000
015uh for for each employee that would take it um but yeah but like I said we would pay a sub anywhere between 7 and 8,000 >> so yeah >> cost avoidance basically concentrate up and pick up continuity in the classroom. >> Right. That's right. >> Any other questions? >> Okay. So, in accordance with Senator Rald Act 390, we will open the public hearing uh for public comment on the tenant agreement with the SDA. And seeing and seeing no public attendance at tonight's public hearing, uh, I would entertain a motion to close the public hearing. So move. Second. >> I have a motion, a second to close the public hearing. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none. All members in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Those opposed. Same sign. Eyes have it. Motion carries.
016Public hearing is closed and unless there's anything else to come before this board this evening, I'd entertain a motion to >> adjourn. Mot.