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Emporia USD 253 board unanimously approves tentative agreement, salary schedules, insurance renewals, meal price changes and other routine items
Summary
The USD 253 board on July 9 approved a tentative negotiated agreement for licensed staff, administrator and classified salary schedules, workmans' compensation and property/liability renewals, school meal price adjustments and a series of annual resolutions and appointments. Most motions passed on unanimous 7–0 votes.
At its July 9 meeting, the Emporia USD 253 Board of Education approved a set of negotiated contracts, budget- and operations-related renewals and routine annual resolutions and appointments. The headline action was the board’s approval of a tentative negotiated agreement for licensed professionals and accompanying updates to administrator and classified salary schedules for the 2025–26 school year.
Pam Strandothan, presenting the negotiated-agreement materials, summarized the IBB (interest-based bargaining) process and the IBB team's internal ratification: "We ended up with a 194 yes and 6 no," she said, describing staff-level voting on the tentative…
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