By CRISTINA JANNEY
Hays Post
The Hays USD 489 school board will continue discussion Monday on a new wage schedule for classified staff.
The board will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the Rockwell Administration Center.
The school board was first presented a classified wage study on June 16. It found several classes of USD 489 employees are not making as much as their peers. These included building secretaries, office assistants and clerical workers, and information technology assistants. The wages for information technology assistants have already been adjusted.
District officials hope to develop wage schedules for all classified staff, but Hall said the district can’t afford to make all the adjustments in one year. They hope to start with the secretarial staff.
The board will again discuss the naming of the new home for the Early Childhood Connections program. The former Oak Park Medical Complex on 13th Street was renovated with the help of a federal grant for the program. The board has a list of names that were submitted by the community.
The complex opened to students at the start of the fall semester.
In other business, the board will:
- Hear a vaping presentation by Smoky Hill Foundation for Chemical Dependency’s Alisha Dinges and Jobeth Haselhorst
- Hear a report on the Kansas STAR Recognition Program.