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Board adopts GBE change to remove upfront medical barrier for new hires; district begins work on hard-to-fill pay policy
Summary
Trustees waived a second reading and adopted policy GBE to shift some pre-employment medical/TB requirements until after a new hire's first paycheck; administrators also presented draft policies giving the superintendent limited salary flexibility for objectively defined 'hard-to-fill' positions and committed to further financial analysis.
The Ferguson-Florissant Board of Education on Feb. 10 waived the second reading and adopted policy GBE (staff health and safety), which removes the requirement that some new hires complete a physical examination and TB test before beginning work and instead allows required tests to be completed after a first paycheck and within a set window.
Charlie Moore, chief of staff, and Katie Chambers, chief human resources officer, said the change is intended to reduce barriers that delay new employees from starting—especially for applicants without immediate access…
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