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Board reviews stipend roster and potential cost savings from stipend-based roles
Summary
The board reviewed a comprehensive stipend list for extra duties — bus-driver training, webmaster, family coordinators, coach stipends and a special-ed administrator stipend — and discussed cost comparisons between stipends and full-time positions.
Board and staff discussed a range of stipends the district posts annually for roles such as bus-driver training completion ($800), summer-school teachers, family coordinators ($800 one-time), webmaster ($5,000), coach stipends and a teacher-leader position (20% of salary). Presenter 3 said some stipends yield cost savings compared with full-time hires; the example given compared a $24,000 stipend used to manage special-education administration in lieu of hiring a $150,000 director.
"The difference between a SPED director, a $150,000 for the year, and the stipend to a SPED a person to administrate the SPED, that position at 24,000 for the year is a big savings to the district," Presenter 3 said, noting the stipend approach is being trialed this year. The stipend list was presented for clarity and transparency; board members discussed whether to add advanced-degree stipends to the public list and asked staff to continue documenting which stipends are open to internal application versus position-based.
