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Board approves multiple policy updates and a 2025–28 confidential employee agreement
Summary
Board approved second‑reading policy updates and voted to approve a supervisory confidential memorandum of agreement (2025–2028) that includes a 6% COLA in year one and 3.5% in later years, plus HSA and affinity-clause language changes.
The Vernonia board approved a package of policy updates presented as second reading and also voted to approve a supervisory confidential memorandum of agreement covering 2025–2028. During discussion, administrators reviewed language changes including a 6% cost‑of‑living adjustment (COLA) in year one and 3.5% COLA amounts for subsequent years in the confidential/supervisory contract. "There is a 6% COLA increase that is consistent… Next year, it's consistent with our classified and our certified staff," the Superintendent said while explaining the contract language.
Policy updates advanced included illness and injury reporting, suspected child‑abuse reporting, use of artificial intelligence (first reading noted earlier), program exemptions, restraint/seclusion rules, expulsion and student-health services, public records and public-complaint AR language. The board moved and seconded the policy approvals and carried the motions by voice vote.
Administrators also flagged HSA language changes (moving from a specified flat monthly dollar amount to a percentage-based calculation) and added an "affinity" clause expanding sick-leave usage to cover close non‑blood family relationships. The board accepted the MOA and policy updates as presented and recorded the approvals in the meeting minutes.
