The INDEPENDENT, September 15, 2005
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Banks School Board kept busy with certified and classified contracts
Banks School Board voted
to ratify three-year employment
contracts with certified and
classified staff at their meeting
September 12. The contracts
run from July 1, 2005, to June
30, 2008.
Board member Doug Nord-
holm stated that the board had
four goals going into negotia-
tions, two were primary and two
secondary. The main goals
were to establish a multi-year
contract and to adopt a pay
schedule with fewer steps. The
secondary goals were to make
the early and middle steps of
the schedule more attractive in
order to retain teachers, and to
make the salaries at the top of
the schedule more compatible
to those of comparable dis-
tricts. The secondary goals
were achieved by adopting a
pay schedule with fewer steps.
The new certified contract
calls for an 18 step schedule in-
stead of the previous 25 steps.
It provides a raise of no less
than 5.4 percent per employee
in the first year. The second
and third years of the contract
will involve step increases plus
a two percent cost of living in-
crease.
The contract for classified
employees increased from a
seven step schedule to eight
steps. However, the base was
raised by 4.5 percent and a rate
of 3.5 percent was established
between steps.
Insurance components of
the contract are the same for
both certified and classified
staff. There will be no addition-
al out-of-pocket expense for
employees this year. In subse-
quent years, the school district
will cover increases in premi-
ums up to nine percent. In-
creases above that amount will
fall to employees.
Nordholm said that the scale
is competitive with comparable
districts, adding that much time
and effort had gone into making
sure that it was. Board member
Will Moore said “It sounds like a
good fair schedule for every-
one. I’m pleased.”
The board as a whole was
pleased that a three year con-
tract had been achieved.
In other business, the board
discussed adopting district-
wide goals. The goals under
consideration are the result of a
goal-setting workshop with the
board, the superintendent and
a representative from the Ore-
gon School Boards Association
(OSBA). These goals will be
broad, umbrella-type goals.
Also discussed was updat-
ing the Budget Guiding Princi-
ples to reflect the fact that the
district is in a more stable finan-
cial position than it was four
years ago when the current
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tary
• Jill Brown, part-time locker
room assistant, high school
• Olivia Walsh, part-time
playground supervisor, elemen-
tary
• Julie Kemper, part-time
playground supervisor, elemen-
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principles were adopted.
Both the goals and the budg-
et principles will be discussed
again at a later date before be-
ing adopted.
Administrators of the three
schools reported an enthusias-
tic start to the school year. Jim
Foster, principal of the high
school, reported that the high
school had the largest student
body ever, with 444 students
registered. Foster and Marty
Voge, principal of the elemen-
tary school, reported that both
schools have some very large
classes. The elementary school
has many classes with over 30
kids in them and Foster report-
ed that there are algebra class-
es with 36 students this year.
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