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.
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