By JAMES BELL
Hays Post

Negotiating teams for the Hays National Education Association and the USD 489 Board of Education will meet again tonight, Aug. 20, in the Toepfer Board Room of the Rockwell Administration Building, 323 West 12th St., from 5:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. to continue contract talks for the 2015-2016 school yer.

The groups are likely to continue discussions on severance pay caps accrued through unused leave days, and horizontal and vertical pay movement for the district’s teachers.

The last negotiations session centered on those topics where the HNEA team presented a progressive cap schedule for accrued days for the board to evaluate.  HNEA also agreed to expand teacher work days, if teachers were caught up to the pay schedule.

Minutes from the last session can be found here.