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Weston County School District #1 approves pay increases, budget boosts and 9% insurance coverage for 2025–26
Summary
At its April 30 meeting the Weston County School District #1 Board of Trustees approved a package of salary and budget changes for 2025–26, including the district covering a 9% medical insurance increase and multiple step/base increases for certified, classified and administrative staff.
The Weston County School District #1 Board of Trustees at its April 30, 2025 meeting approved a series of salary and budget adjustments intended to take effect in the 2025–26 school year. Superintendent LaCroix recommended the measures and trustees moved and seconded each recommendation before voting to approve them.
Key approvals included the district covering a 9% increase in employee medical insurance; allowing certified staff to move one step on the salary schedule and to move a lane where applicable; a $750 increase to the certified staff base; classified staff moves of one step and a $0.35 increase to classified step rates; and $1,000 base increases for administrators and directors. The board also approved a $100,000 increase to the general fund maintenance budget to cover maintenance contracts and a $75,000 increase to the transportation budget to fund bus/suburban leases.
Other personnel- and operations-related approvals included granting employees 24/7 access to the district weight room, funding Special Olympics from the general fund, raising the three building secretaries’ base pay by $3.00, and increasing middle- and high-school coaches’ extra-duty pay by $250. The board approved increasing the high school athletic budget to cover shot-clock officials.
Board members moved these measures on motions introduced by Superintendent LaCroix with motions carried by voice vote (recorded as “MOTION CARRIED” in the minutes). The meeting record does not include numerical roll-call tallies for these votes.
The board also authorized covering health insurance for the technology director, transportation director, maintenance director and the district’s EWC director pending job-duty changes, and approved moving the middle- and high-school food programs out of the federal food program.
The board received and approved the business manager’s third-quarter financial report covering January through March 2025 during the same meeting.
The board will implement the approved budget and payroll changes through district personnel and finance processes; the minutes do not specify implementation dates beyond the 2025–26 school year.
