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2 renewal levies proposed for 2016 ballot
Bellefontaine Schools Board of Education members approved at their Monday evening meeting a new three-year contract with the Bellefontaine Education Association, and also took the first steps toward placing two renewal operating levies on the November ballot.
The comprehensive agreement with the teacher’s union that begins Sept. 1 and continues through Aug. 31, 2019, includes 2 percent raises for professional staff during the 2016-17 school year. With this adjustment, the district’s base salary will increase from $32,946 to $33,605.
In addition, unused personal leave will be rolled into employee’s sick leave balance, a change that was proposed by both parties.
For the final two years of the contract, there will be a re-opener on the economic package and insurance.
Action on the contract, along with a number of personnel and other regular items on the agenda, followed an approximately 45-minute executive session to discuss the appointment, employment, dismissal, discipline, promotion, demotion or compensation of public employees.
Included in the personnel items that were unanimously approved by the board after the executive session was the discharge from employment of Tonya Blair, educational aide/bus aide, effective June 13. She has been employed in the district since 2004, and worked both in the classroom and on school buses, Superintendent Brad Hall said.
The superintendent said the termination followed an investigation by the district regarding the employee. He said he could not comment further, as the case is likely to go through the appeal process.
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The board also unanimously approved a suspension without pay for five days for bus driver Barbara Scherer, who has worked in the district since 1996. The suspension dates are Aug. 29-31 and Sept. 1-2.
Regarding the renewal levies, the board unanimously approved resolutions of necessity for the two ballot measures — a five-year, 6.05-mil operating levy that has been in place since 1986, and a five-year emergency operating levy to raise $1.185 million that began in 2007. Both of the levies expire at the end of 2017.
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