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Board adopts handbook wage updates, approves meal-price increases and two fund transfers
Summary
The board approved classified-handbook and wage updates (about $100,000 additional expense), raised school-lunch and breakfast prices (lunch +$0.20, breakfast +$0.15), accepted donations, and approved transfers including $400,000 from education to operations and a rainy‑day transfer to cover the cafeteria deficit.
At its June meeting the North Central Parke Community School Corporation board approved multiple finance and personnel items aimed at stabilizing operations and addressing staffing pay.
Superintendent Dr. Shimp reviewed fund balances and recommended several actions: the education fund holds about $3.1 million and the operations fund about $1.88 million. The board approved a set of classified-handbook edits and pay adjustments that Dr. Shimp said total roughly $100,000 in additional annual expense; one highlighted change removes a mandatory shutdown week and recommended a $1-per-hour raise for instructional assistants.
To address food-service deficits, the board also approved a 20-cent increase to lunch prices and a 15-cent increase to breakfast prices. Dr. Shimp told the board that the district has not raised meal prices since before the COVID pandemic and that the adjustment is intended to reduce the cafeteria’s red balance.
The board approved a $400,000 transfer from the education fund to the operations fund to cover near‑term construction and bills before fiscal year end; the transfer was presented as the first of potentially more transfers during the fiscal year. Separately, the board authorized a rainy‑day transfer to cover the cafeteria fund’s negative balance; the superintendent said the final amount to cover the deficit will be confirmed when final reporting is complete.
Kim read a list of community donations that support district programs; the itemized list included multiple foundation funds and local church and PTO contributions totaling approximately $17,671.48 as read to the board.
All motions on these financial and handbook matters passed by board voice votes (most unanimously). The board directed staff to finalize the handbook language and report back on the implementation and fiscal impact of the wage changes and meal-price adjustment before the next budget cycle.
Next steps: administrators will implement pay changes, update handbooks, finalize the transfers, and provide fiscal updates to the board as year-end accounting is completed.
