Spooner board reviews student and employee handbook updates, OKs first readings
May 07, 2024 | Spooner Area School District, School Districts, Wisconsin
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District leaders presented first readings of proposed updates to student and employee handbooks and asked the board to move the items to the regular meeting for formal approval.
Elementary, middle and high school principals summarized changes to student handbooks: removing a spring picture option because pictures occur at open house, clarifying class assignment procedures, adding universal monitoring assessment language to comply with DPI guidance, and aligning language about health, hygiene and meningococcal notification for middle and high school. Middle school principal Josh Fiesel recommended shifting school minutes to better align schedules across buildings and described updated tardiness and discipline thresholds meant to emphasize behavior support over early punitive measures.
On the employee side, Dr. Aslan presented committee recommendations including several pay and benefits revisions: raising the summer licensed staff rate to "$24 an hour," adding a 30‑year column to the classified pay table, and proposing adjustments to substitute and sick‑leave payouts. "It's approximately $3,000 for this last year is what we would see," Dr. Aslan said when asked about the budgetary effect of the classified pay table changes. He also described proposed sick‑leave retirement payouts: licensed staff proposed at "$65 for every 2 days accumulated at 90" and classified staff proposed at "$60 for every 2 days accumulated at 90."
Board members raised clarifying questions about specific figures and the rationale for payout amounts; administration said the numbers came from committee deliberations and the district’s preliminary budget constraints. One board member flagged an apparent typographical change in the substitute half‑day rate and administration confirmed that the half‑day substitute rate should remain $75.
After discussion, members gave consensus to move both the student and employee handbook updates to the regular meeting for further action and second reading.
Elementary, middle and high school principals summarized changes to student handbooks: removing a spring picture option because pictures occur at open house, clarifying class assignment procedures, adding universal monitoring assessment language to comply with DPI guidance, and aligning language about health, hygiene and meningococcal notification for middle and high school. Middle school principal Josh Fiesel recommended shifting school minutes to better align schedules across buildings and described updated tardiness and discipline thresholds meant to emphasize behavior support over early punitive measures.
On the employee side, Dr. Aslan presented committee recommendations including several pay and benefits revisions: raising the summer licensed staff rate to "$24 an hour," adding a 30‑year column to the classified pay table, and proposing adjustments to substitute and sick‑leave payouts. "It's approximately $3,000 for this last year is what we would see," Dr. Aslan said when asked about the budgetary effect of the classified pay table changes. He also described proposed sick‑leave retirement payouts: licensed staff proposed at "$65 for every 2 days accumulated at 90" and classified staff proposed at "$60 for every 2 days accumulated at 90."
Board members raised clarifying questions about specific figures and the rationale for payout amounts; administration said the numbers came from committee deliberations and the district’s preliminary budget constraints. One board member flagged an apparent typographical change in the substitute half‑day rate and administration confirmed that the half‑day substitute rate should remain $75.
After discussion, members gave consensus to move both the student and employee handbook updates to the regular meeting for further action and second reading.
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