Boardman teachers get pay raises as renewal levy looms

By JORDYN GRZELEWSKI

jgrzelewski@vindy.com

BOARDMAN

Teachers will get a 1-percent pay increase for both the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 school years, based on the terms of a three-year contract that took effect starting this school year.

School officials say changes to what the school district will pay out for salaries account for the nearly $650,000 increase in appropriations from the general fund that were authorized by the board of education for next year, compared to this year.

And, that makes the 3.9-mill emergency three-year renewal levy, which would generate $3.1 million annually and will be on the ballot in November, all the more important, they said.

The board of education voted in September to approve $58,761,508 in appropriations for fiscal year 2015, $42,371,541 of which are general fund dollars. This is an increase from $56,994,672 for fiscal year 2014, of which $41,729,645 were general fund dollars.

That amounts to a $641,896 increase in appropriations from the general fund, almost all of which is for salaries.

Some of that is because the school district hired one new special education teacher and one new third-grade teacher this year, according to Director of Operations Tim Saxton.

The rest is because of pay raises and restoration of step increases.

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