Rich School Board Meeting

Bobbie Bicknell Coray, Reporter

Rich Civic Times

RANDOLPH, Utah.  April 15, 2015. After a tour of the Bridgerland Applied Technology Center, which included demonstrations by students of the mills and lathe technology, welding, health career training, building trades demonstrations, and computer aided design technology being taught at the Center, school board members convened at the  Rich County School Board offices in Randolph. Board Members Bryce Huefner,  Eric Wamsley, Monte Weston, Scott Saby , Pete Cornia were present.

Dale Lamborn, Superintendent, said that new elementary teachers and aides had been hired at North Rich.  Shay Pace will be the cheerleading coach and Ruthann Jarman will be the new drill team coach.  The speech and language pathologist has not been hired yet.  The unusually large second grade has an aide in the classroom and the community council has recommended that State School Trust Land money be used to continue that aide as the class moves to the third grade next year. 

 

Superintendent Lamborn hates setting a precedent for keeping on a part time aide, but feels he should listen to trust land committee recommendations, and request for staffing fits well under trust land funding guidelines. Laketown elementary now has 30 in the third grade so there is an aide paid for out of  general school funds.

 

Policy 706  has been adopted to bring fairness to unbenefited employees who used to be capped at 20 hours per week.  Now there are unbenefited employees who work 30 hours per week.  If a classified employee wants to work more hours it now means that they are paid at a lower substitute wage.  Sometimes the cooks substitute as aides on their day off and aides are paid less than the cooks are.  Should that cook be paid at aide rate then or at their cook rate? Activity drivers fill in for regular drivers, but are not paid at the regular driver route rate, but have been dropped down to sub rates. 

“So what do we do about classified employees who do substituting?”asked Laborne.    He suggested that substituting employees go to the bottom rate of the job they substitute for, rather than the lower sub wages.   Currently at state tournament time bus drivers are paid overtime.  And overtime needs to be paid at a higher rate according to fair labor laws.  Also activity bus drivers are paid less than regular bus drivers.  Lamborn recommended that all bus drivers be paid the same, not one activity bus and a regular route fee schedule.  A vote on Policy 706 was tabled until the next meeting.

The proposed school calendar is on the Rich County Schools website. http://www.richschool.org/pages/Rich_School_District.   School will begin next year on August 24.