Board Minutes - 2021.03.29 - Public Meetings

The Public meetings were held on March 29^th at the West Elementary Commons Area starting at 4;00 pm.

Present: Supt Reiter, Director of Finance Morine, Board Members: Smith and Hansen.   IESP Negotiation Team: Preuss, Hopkins, Johnson and Miller along with 7 IESP members.

 

FIRST MEETING:

Lisa Preuss from the Independence Educational Support Personnel Association (IESP) presented their initial proposal.

The IESP’s initial proposal:

• Proposing the establishment of a Labor Management Committee.
• Proposing a two-year salary increase.  For FY22, an increase of $.50 per hour on base for the paraprofessionals, food service, kitchen manager and secretary.  In addition, all current employees in those categories will receive the base wage increase of $.50/hour plus and additional $.50 per hour.   The custodians will receive an increase of $.50 per hour since their base wage had been increased earlier in the year.  For FY23, a $.50/hour increase on the base for all categories.  In addition, all current employees will receive the base wage increase of $.50/hour plus an additional $.50/hour.  This was approximately a 6.28% increase.

 

SECOND MEETING: (held immediately following the first)

Supt. Reiter thanked the support staff for all the work and changes during the COVID pandemic and looks forward to the next year.

Board initial proposal to the Independence Educational Support Personnel Association (IESP)

• Remove the Kitchen Managers from the Appendix A
• Base wage increases of $ .25/hour and existing paraprofessionals, secretary, custodian shall be $.35/hour higher than their current rate.  The food service employees would receive an increase of $ 2.25/hour over their existing wage and $1.95 increase to the base wage.   Total Package increase of 3.26% (Salary 4.20%, Insurance -.50%)
• Secretarial, paraprofessionals and food service employees shall not be deducted more than 4 work days due to no school in FY22.  The district will offer professional development days for those no school days in excess of 4 days if 75% of the staff participates in the professional development. 

Full disclosure of  all the proposals may be reviewed at the Administration Office.

 

Russell Reiter                                                   Laura Morine
Superintendent                                                 Director of Finance/Board Secretary