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Elko County School District approves cuts to substitute pay, pauses textbook adoptions
Summary
The Elko County School District board approved a 10% reduction to regular substitute pay (effective March 16) and a 32% cut to long-term sub pay (effective July 1), and voted to pause textbook adoptions for one year while maintaining existing licenses.
Superintendent CJ Anderson reported that the Elko County School District Board of Trustees approved changes to substitute-pay policy GDB02 and voted to pause textbook adoptions for the coming year.
The board adopted a reduction in the regular substitute-teacher pay rate of 10%, which Anderson said "will actually go into effect on March 16th." He also said the long-term substitute pay rate "is being reduced by 32% but the current rate will persist through June 30th and it will go into effect on July 1st." The board selected one of four options presented by district staff; the meeting record did not include a roll-call vote or tally.
On curriculum, Anderson said the board approved pausing the district's regular textbook-adoption cycle for the next year and will "re-evaluate during the year" depending on the district's financial condition. He added the district will "continue to maintain essential licenses for previous adoptions" so teachers and students can keep using current materials.
Other formal actions approved during the meeting included granting the district grant coordinator permission to apply for next-year grants and finalizing policy JJA (education records/directory information) after revisions to align with Assembly Bill 6 from the last legislative session. A separate policy on law-enforcement access to students (JCBC) was discussed but tabled for further work with local law enforcement; no action was taken on JCBC.
Anderson emphasized that several items discussed were proposals requiring future board decisions and that any change to staff salaries beyond collective bargaining would require a declaration of fiscal emergency and subsequent negotiations. He said, "the board does not neither I nor the board has the ability to just make a decision to reduce salaries," noting the constraints of the district's collective bargaining agreements.
The board did not provide vote tallies in the verbal recap; where votes were taken the meeting record indicates approval or tabling but does not list mover/second or individual votes. The superintendent encouraged the public to review the linked materials and attend upcoming meetings for more detail. The next special meeting was announced for March 10, with consolidation of fifth-grade students on the agenda.
