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Warren Hills board ratifies teachers' agreement, approves wide slate of hires and leaves
Summary
At its Sept. 10 meeting, the Warren Hills Regional Board of Education ratified a Memorandum of Agreement with its teachers' association and approved numerous personnel appointments, leave replacements, stipends and substitute assignments; all motions passed by roll call of members present.
The Warren Hills Regional Board of Education on Sept. 10 ratified a Memorandum of Agreement with the Warren Hills Regional Education Association covering the contract period July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2027, and approved a broad set of personnel motions that include leave replacements, after-school peer-tutoring monitors and advisor stipends.
The agreement ratified by the board was described in the agenda as a successor collective negotiations agreement and the board authorized its president to execute the finalized contract. The board also approved multiple individual appointments and personnel actions on the superintendent's recommendation, including medical leave replacements, substitute teacher appointments at $130 per day, and after-school peer-tutoring monitors at $46 per hour. The motions were presented as Items I.1–I.4 and were adopted by roll call of the members present; one member (Corey Piasecki) was listed absent.
Among the named appointments on the agenda were Cynthia Bamford as a medical-leave replacement teacher (daily rate $364.17), Jason Graf as advisor for the jazz ensemble ($3,300), and multiple teachers whose degree-step movements were recorded on the salary guide. The agenda lists Abigail Makoski in two places with different salary figures (once at $98,843 and later at $101,005 in the additional personnel attachments); the agenda text is internally inconsistent on that point and the record in the agenda does not reconcile the two amounts.
Board members moved and seconded the personnel motions during the public session and the roll call recorded all present members voting in the affirmative. The minutes show the motions passed and were recorded in the meeting packet.
The board also administratively added a set of additional personnel items (Attachments A–J) covering tenured and non-tenured certificated staff, school security personnel, technology personnel, secretarial staff, custodial/grounds/maintenance hires and paraprofessionals; those additions were approved by roll call at the meeting.
What happens next: specific hires and leaves will take effect on the dates listed in the agenda and are subject to completion of required paperwork where noted. The board noted that 2023–2024 salaries remain in effect for the 2024–2025 school year pending contract negotiations.
