North Harrison School Board Meeting for September 9, 2021
Notes by Ashley Black
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The North Harrison Community School Board met with three different meetings on the agenda for September 9, 2021. The 2022 budget hearing meeting began at 7:05pm with all school board members present.
Dr. Lance Richards presented how and why the administration calculates the proposed budgets in each of the tax levy funds. The budget will be made public via Gateway, which is an Indiana portal for government units. This can be found https://budgetnotices.in.gov/Unit_View.aspx?unit_id=929.
Once the presentation concluded, the board president ended the budget hearing and called to order the regular meeting of the board (minute 22:20), which included the adoption of the agenda, approvals for the August 2021 meeting minutes, claims, payrolls and the bank reconciliation. There were no school presentations this month, and there was one staff member who stood up to speak during the participation portion. Their comments related to teacher compensation, and they were asked to speak during the third and final meeting of the evening, which was the public hearing regarding collective bargaining.
School board and superintendent comments can be found at minute mark 32:20.
The public hearing regarding collective bargaining was called to order and Dr. Richards went over the timeline of the bargaining regarding teacher compensation. Kelly Book, a science teacher at North Harrison High School, shared frustrations about the pay scale levels.