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Committee approves collaborative agreement and minutes, extends 70/30 health plan to retirees and moves to executive session
Summary
The committee approved routine minutes and a collaborative agreement, voted to apply the 70/30 employee health‑insurance contribution to retirees, and voted to enter executive session under MGLC21 A3 for superintendent negotiations.
At the meeting the Athol‑Royalston Regional School Committee handled several routine and procedural items and took a vote to enter executive session.
The committee approved the minutes of Feb. 12, 2025 after a motion and second and a voice vote with no recorded opposition. Under new business the committee also approved a collaborative agreement included in the packet; that motion was made, seconded and approved by voice vote.
On a finance‑related motion the committee voted to include retirees under the district’s 70/30 employee health‑insurance contribution structure beginning July 1, 2025, after a motion and second; no roll‑call tallies were recorded in the transcript. The finance presenter said the ATA contract establishes the 70/30 split for employees but does not explicitly address retirees, which is why the committee vote was required to implement the change.
Near the end of the public meeting the committee voted to enter executive session to conduct strategy and collective bargaining for the superintendent position, citing "MGLC21 A3" as the statutory basis for the closed session. A roll call was read and members answered in the affirmative. The committee did not plan to return to public session that evening.
The transcript records these votes as voice votes and a roll call into executive session; no individual vote tallies for motions in open session were provided in the meeting transcript.
