Committee approves technical changes: parental leave wording and supervisor approval for extracurricular pay adjustments

Moscow School District negotiators agreed to two technical edits to the negotiated agreement and asked staff to return formal wording for committee review.

Parental leave: Committee members approved changing the parental leave clause on page 15 from ''should'' to ''must'' so that the five days of full pay allowed for the birth or adoption of a child are treated as an automatic, primary leave type rather than permissive language. Staff will bring a clean redline of the exact text to the next meeting.

Extracurricular pay and notification: The committee reviewed the extracurricular compensation schedule and corrected a drafting typo (change to 'not to exceed'). Members also directed staff to add a sentence making the superintendent the approving authority for proposed adjustments and to require notification of affected employees prior to approval. The committee asked staff to return an amended draft that includes the corrected phrasing and the added sentence; it also instructed staff to identify and add middle‑school swimming and middle‑school girls wrestling lines to the activity pay schedule and to confirm percentages for those positions.

Members emphasized that the intent is to ensure transparency: if a coach or program sponsor seeks an adjustment, the superintendent will approve any change and the affected staff will be notified in advance of the action.

Ending: Staff will circulate a redlined negotiated‑agreement excerpt for parental leave and extracurricular pay before the next committee meeting and will supply the missing percentage figures for the newly proposed middle‑school entries.