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Berlin-Boylston Regional School Committee reviews paraprofessional contract, discusses retroactive pay
Summary
At an Oct. 8, 2024 executive session, the Berlin-Boylston Regional School Committee reviewed a proposed paraprofessional contract, discussed professional development and leave days, and heard a request to time retroactive pay for the first week of November; the session adjourned on a 5-0 roll call.
The Berlin-Boylston Regional School Committee met in executive session on Oct. 8, 2024 to discuss strategy related to paraprofessional collective bargaining under Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 30A, Section 21(a)(3).
Committee members reviewed the paraprofessional unified contract that appeared on the agenda. The minutes record discussion of the contract and the process for finalizing it but do not record a formal vote on adoption during the executive session.
Members also discussed operational details the contract touches on, including professional development days and personal and professional leave days; the specific number of days was not specified in the minutes. The minutes reference Mrs. Dara Ricci in connection with research related to the item but do not provide further detail about that work.
Daniel Deedy, interim director of finance and operations, raised the timing for retroactive pay and requested that retro pay be processed the first week of November, aligned with the expected start date of the district’s full-time Finance & Operations hire. The committee asked staff to prepare a clean version of the contract document for a future vote.
The executive session was adjourned after a motion by District Clerk Lori-Anne Hart, seconded by Vice Chair Julie Lee. A roll call vote recorded five ayes — Jessica Deglialberti, Julie Lee, Michael Totman, Lori-Anne Hart and Chair Meagan Grill — and the motion to adjourn and reopen in open session passed 5-0.
No other formal actions or vote outcomes on the paraprofessional contract are recorded in the provided minutes; next steps identified in the session include circulating a clean contract document for a future vote and processing retro pay pending the Finance & Operations hire.
