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McDonald board OKs paying of premiums
McDONALD
The McDonald school board Monday approved paying 100 percent of the premium for health benefits for the district’s top two administrators, effective Aug. 1.
Superintendent Ken Halbert and Treasurer Bill Johnson will both have 100 per cent board-paid coverage for medical/prescription, dental and vision insurance under amendments made to their individual contracts.
Previously, the administrators, as part-time employees, were paying premiums for health care at a rate twice that of a regular employee.
The superintendent works 130 days per year, and the treasurer works 180 days a year. Halbert makes $52,000 annually, and Johnson makes $40,000 a year.
A full-time employee works 260 days a year.
Halbert paid $450 a month as his share for family coverage previously, and Johnson took the single rate which cost him $130 a month.
The treasurer noted that the change in benefits for the administrators was proposed by the board.
In other business, the board approved a contract with Wolford’s Rolloff, Inc., 175 Ohio Ave., McDonald, at $11,160 for removal and replacement of the gymnasium concrete steps and the three pads in front of the steps at the high school.
The existing handrails will be removed to be reinstalled by a separate contractor.
The steps are the main entrance to the gym, Johnson said.
The board also approved hiring Elaine Rupe of Cortland on a one-year contract for the 2014-15 school year. She will be an Elementary Intervention Paraprofessional paid for under the federal Title 1 program. She will tutor grades K-6, at a rate of $11 an hour for 6.5 hours a day for 183 days with a total contract of $13,084, paid for by the federal Title 1 funds.
Two Title 1 tutors, JoMarie Jones of McDonald and Sarah Rook of Niles, were hired under a one-year contract for the 2014-15 school year as Elementary Title 1 tutors for grades K-6, at a rate of $17 an hour, for 6.5 hours per day for 183 days, for a total contract amount of $20,221, which is paid for with Title 1 monies.