Negotiations Mtg May 13th
Notes for the Meeting
Time: 7:00PM
Ground rules:
- Meetings need to last one hour
- Proposal needs to be in writing and written by one person.
EVALUATION TOOL:
- Mr. Mephem doesn’t want to go over evaluation tool. He wants to change the language of the evaluation tool. All were in agreement.
- Mr. Mephem would like to go through and make clerical errors and wants to change how long the contract is. He doesn’t want to enter in a 2 yr. contract. He would like to have someone come to his office to go through clerical errors with him. (No one had been picked to meet with him at this time) Mr. Mephem would like to make a 1 yr. contract. Corina asked if this was on the discussion list that was given to Mr. Mephem and Rob said no. John spoke up and said he agreed to move the contract to a one year contract but he was only speaking for himself. Corina asked if she could have a copy of Mr. Mephems contract. She wanted to know what he had high lighted. Mr. Mephem is going to give her a copy.
- Evaluations should be the same form for all principals. Mr. Mephem asked to have a form that everyone liked. One idea was to have two teachers and principals discuss the form and decide what the form will look like. Everyone agreed that the end of the year form should be different. There was a discussion of the possibility to have four walk through each semester and to have timely meetings within 24 hours after each evaluation.
SALARY MATRIC
- Mr. Mephem wants to keep salary schedule competitive.
Discussion over BA 45 asked for 4% increase (10 teachers at this level)
PERSONAL AND SICK LEAVE
- Mr. Mephem is concerned with number of people gone at the same time. He would like to come up with some language to work sick and personal leave. Shelly asked is there a limit of teachers being gone right now? Jim said he would like to have an incentive to keep people from using personal or sick leave. He suggested a proposal to buy personal leave back if you don’t use them every year. There was a discussion of a trade off.
- There was some discussion about retirement language. Something that will work. Thompson Falls and Helena had language about an incentive for retirement. Mr. Mephem liked the language it is good to know who is going to retire early then he could budget better. Rob read the language of the Helena contract. Rob is going to find the language for the next meeting.
LEAVE WITHOUT PAY
· Do we need to go to the board or to our principal? Mr. Mephem thought it is better going to our principals.
SICK LEAVE BANK
· Jim would like to have MEA control the sick leave bank. He doesn’t want a huge amount in the bank. Some discussion over certified and classified being in the same pool. All agreed this was not a problem. Mr. Mephem is willing to do what we want because it is our money. Some discussion on changing some language or clean up the committee. Have a closer look and this.
REP FEE
· Mr. Mephem said the board would not go for a rep fee.
· Carrie suggested another survey to see if the staff wanted a rep fee or a scholarship fee.
END OF THE MEETING
Some talk of the Calendar 187 days.
Rob asked to see the budget numbers. His information from MEA and the information he obtained from Lora Johnson do not add up. Budget numbers are different. Different things are being added so percents are different. Budget is a huge guessing game. Rob is getting the information from Mr. Mephem.
Next meeting: Wednesday May 20th 7:00pm. The negotiation team will meet at 6:00 pm prior to the meeting.
Meeting ended at 8:30.