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Board approves one-time stipend for hourly support staff using state supplemental funds
Summary
Marshalltown trustees voted to distribute the state's education support personnel supplement to hourly staff as a one-day stipend, after state rules required the money be used as supplemental pay rather than to offset base wages.
The Marshalltown Community School District Board of Education on Monday approved using a state education support personnel supplement to pay a one-time stipend to all hourly support personnel.
Randy Denham, the district's board secretary, explained that late-session state legislation made a supplemental appropriation for support personnel; districts were later informed the funds must be supplemental and could not replace contractual base wages. Marshalltown's allocation amounted to approximately $154,681 (about $28.78 per pupil statewide, Denham said).
"The legislation was specific in that the funds had to be supplemental in nature," Denham said. "Negotiations and salary schedules were already wrapped up for the current year, so administratively we felt it was appropriate to use the funds to provide a one-day stipend to hourly staff."
The board moved and approved the recommendation; the motion carried unanimously.
Why it matters: The stipend distributes one-time state funds to hourly staff in recognition of their work and to comply with the state requirement that the money not be used to supplant negotiated wages. The board and administration said the approach mirrors how some pandemic-era federal funds were used for supplemental recognition.
The district will administer the stipend this fiscal year, as required by the state funding guidance.
