USD 436 administrators will receive a 3 percent salary hike for the 2008-09 school year, courtesy of a unanimous decision by USD 436 Board of Education members on Monday.
The salary hikes will be for the school superintendent and three principals. Those new administrator salaries will be:
• Superintendent Danny Fulton: $84,460.
• Caney Valley Jr.-Sr. High School principal Justin Lockwood: $66,435.
• Caney Valley Jr.-Sr. High School assistant principal Ron Oyler: $56,135.
• Lincoln Memorial Elementary School principal: $60,873.
School administrators also receive an $11,500 health insurance package in addition to their salaries.
On a related note, the school board voted 6-0 to provide a 3 percent salary increase for classified personnel, which includes secretaries, custodial staff, food service staff, aides, and bus drivers.
In July, the board granted a 3 percent pay hike to USD 436 faculty members.
In other business transacted at Monday’s board meeting, the school board:
• heard an updated report from Superintendent Danny Fulton regarding summer projects in USD 436.
• voted 4-2 to adopt the school district’s 2008-09 budget plan, which calls for the total USD 436 mill levy, also known as a tax rate, to increase slightly from 31.680 mills to 32.288 mills, a difference of .608 mills.
That translates to about $12.58 in extra property taxes on a home valued at $100,000.
Of the 32.288 mills, 20 mills is imposed by the state of Kansas for each school district’s general fund (all school districts are required to assess the 20 mills for the general fund). USD 436 has a Supplemental General Fund, also known as a Local Option Budget, of 12.288 mills, which puts the total USD 436 levy at 32.88 mills.
Attached to the school district’s mill levy is the levy for the Caney Valley Recreation Commission. The commission’s mill levy is expected to increase from 2.865 mills to 3.112 mills for 2008-09.
Voting against the adoption of the budget were board members Jack Kopfman and David Young. Voting for the adoption of the budget were board members Suellen Holtzman, Debbie Morrison, Tim Rigdon and David Deal.
• received a preliminary enrollment report from Fulton, who indicated that 429 students were enrolled at Caney Valley Jr.-Sr. High School and 422 students were enrolled at Lincoln Memorial Elementary School as of Monday.
• approved a $44,699 bid quote from Building Controls and Services of Wichita, Kan., to repair the cooling towers at Lincoln Memorial Elementary School. The repair project is expected to take one week, and cooling will not be made available in the school’s air conditioning system during that time. Fulton said he anticipated the project to be conducted sometime in early to mid autumn.
• accepted the resignation of John Rosson as a USD 436 mechanic and voted to hire Ginger Larkin as a pre-kindergarten paraprofessional.
• agreed to allow school administrators to establish a bus pick-up/drop-off area in Niotaze to serve the out-district students in Chautauqua County. The pick-up/drop-off site will be similar to an area located on the school district’s eastern-most boundary east of Tyro.
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Board members present at Monday’s meeting were David Deal, Suellen Holtzman, Jack Kopfman, Debbie Morrison, Tim Rigdon and David Young. Board member absent was Sherry Rackliff.
