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Board receives first read of revised administrator and classified handbooks, staff projects buy-down costs
Summary
The board received a first read of the 2025–26 Administrator and Classified Employee handbooks, which align leave rules with the proposed negotiated agreement, change vacation carryover rules, add classified pay tiers, and project an initial buy-down cost of roughly $200,000 under the new PTO approach.
Chief Financial Officer Jessica Nodden presented a first reading of the 2025–26 Administrator and Classified Employee handbooks, summarizing changes designed to align administrative and classified leave provisions with the proposed certified-staff negotiated agreement and to clarify operational procedures.
Nodden said the classified-handbook revisions include a uniform maximum accrual of 60 days for all employees, revised vacation carryover rules that will reduce maximum carryover over time (to 25 days in a future year), and a proposed 10 percent per-hour increase across job grades for classified positions. The classified handbook adds a three-tier structure (para 1, 2 and 3) to reflect differing workloads in general education, basic special education, and more intensive special-education classrooms; she said about 39 positions would move from para 2 to para 3 under the reclassification.
Nodden provided preliminary fiscal figures: last year’s retirement sellback payments (employees choosing to sell days) cost about $67,000; staff projected sellback to be about $79,000 in the current year under the old method. Under the new automatic buy-down method for accrued days above 60, staff estimated the initial fiscal-year buy-down (including payroll taxes) could be around $200,000, with later years' payouts falling to roughly $100,000 annually according to the estimates shared in the meeting.
Other handbook changes include clarified emergency-closing reporting requirements (staff must report 30 minutes prior to new start time on delayed-start days), changes to mandatory work-day definitions and mandatory-contact-day expectations for employees on particular calendars, minor dress-code clarifications, and removal of the grievance procedure text in favor of referencing the board policy to avoid conflict.
Nodden also described administrative staffing changes at the Educational Support Center: nine positions between clerical and one administrator at the ESE were closed, accounts payable resources were consolidated, and some reception duties moved to the superintendent’s office as part of a cost-control effort.
This was a first read; the handbooks will be returned for action at the June 26 meeting and the changes are proposed to take effect July 1. Members were invited to contact staff with questions before final action.
