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Negotiators agree to remove grandfathered incentive pays; district proposes digital grade cards amid budget squeeze
Summary
Negotiators agreed to remove two grandfathered incentive pays from the negotiated agreement, and the district proposed stopping mailed elementary grade cards (saving about $1,600) and directing families to PowerSchool; staff raised access and clerical-work concerns. Officials also reported enrollment is down about 520 students from the 2019–20 peak, an estimated nearly $3 million revenue shortfall.
District staff presented several administrative items to the negotiating table: a supplemental-pay reclassification for a high-school pit director position (moving the job from group six to group four if the role covers both shows) and a proposal to remove grandfathered family-resident and independent-children incentive pays from the negotiated agreement.
Negotiators agreed in the session to remove the legacy incentive-pay language from the contract; district staff recorded verbal agreement to remove both the family-resident and independent-children incentive pay provisions.
The district also proposed stopping mailed elementary grade cards and pushing parents to PowerSchool and emailed PDFs to reduce mailing costs (district estimated roughly $1,600 in annual postage savings). Board members and principals asked how families without regular PowerSchool access would receive grades and whether producing and pushing PDFs would create additional clerical work for school staff; district staff said educational services and IT would investigate push options and tutorials and weigh clerical impacts.
As context for compensation and operating choices, the district reported a historical enrollment high of 6,173 students (2019–20) and said current enrollment is down about 520 students from that peak; the district estimate multiplied that head-count difference by current state aid to arrive at an approximate $3 million reduction in revenue, which participants cited as a constraint on salary increases and other compensation decisions.
No binding board vote was recorded on the supplemental-pay reclassification or the grade-card proposal; the incentive-pay deletion was agreed verbally and will be reflected in the next negotiated-agreement draft.
