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Board approves wage-opener increases for multiple employee groups in split votes
Summary
The board split the wage-opener master-agreement item into three votes and approved increases for (1) GEA/GESSA/school-year secretaries/food service, (2) full-year administrative professionals (with one abstention), and (3) paraprofessionals.
The Grandville Public Schools Board of Education approved wage-opener provisions across several employee groups after splitting the original master-agreement item into three separate votes.
Item 5d1, which groups the Granville Education Association (GEA), Granville Education Support Staff Association (GESSA), school-year secretaries and food-service workers, was approved by the board. The chair then moved to item 5d2 (full-year administrative professionals), which the board also approved; one board member recorded an abstention on that vote. Finally, the board approved item 5d3 for paraprofessionals.
The split was proposed and approved at the start of the meeting to avoid conflicts of interest where individual board members might have financial interests tied to specific employee groups. The board did not discuss detailed dollar amounts in public during each motion beyond the motion text; ratification steps and detailed contract language were not read into the record at this meeting.
The motions for each grouped item passed, and the board confirmed the votes before moving to other business.
