Board set to sign 1-year agreements with BEA and OAPSE
Bluffton school board will act on several items pertaining to the 2020-21 school year at tonight’s board meeting.
These include:
• two memorandum agreements involving the Bluffton Education Association and the Ohio Association Public School Employees covering July 1, 2020, through June 30, 2021.
• approval of its 2020-21 appropriations, which total $20.3 million.
• remote learning plan
• administrative assistant wage schedule at a 1.75 percent raise effective July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2021. All other benefits will follow the OAPSE agreement.
In addition, the board will act on a long list of supplement contracts including:
• fall coaches
• classified substitutes
• substitute teachers
Several board policies will have updates including new policies, which are:
• use of face coverings
• family and medical leave act expansion
• emergency paid sick leave
The entire agenda is attached below -
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