Notice
of Hearing on Tentative Employment Agreement
Notice is hereby given that the Board of School Trustees of Union School Corporation will convene a Public Meeting on July 27, 2015 at 5:30 p.m., at Union School Corporation, 8707 West U.S. Highway 36, Room #104, Modoc, IN 47358, for the purpose of discussing and hearing objection to and support for the proposed employment contract for the combined positions of Principal Junior-Senior High School, Corporate Transportation Director and Superintendent of Schools of Union School Corporation. The details of the proposed contract include:
1. Length: a Three (3) year contract from July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2018, with a minimum number of working days per year of Two Hundred Sixty (260) days, minus Twenty (20) paid vacation days.
2. Base Salary of each year of contract shall be as follows:
(a) For the first year from July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016
One Hundred Fifteen Thousand Dollars $115,000.00
(b) For the second year from July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017
One Hundred Twenty Thousand Dollars $120,000.00
with the condition that the employee shall prepare the Union
School Corporation Budget for the 2016-2017 year without
expenditure of funds from Union School Corporation to any third
party contractors for assistance in the preparation of said Budget.
(c) For the third year from July 1, 2017 through June 30, 2018
One Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars $125,000.00
with the condition that the employee shall prepare the Union
School Corporation Budget for the 2017-2018 year without
expenditure of funds from Union School Corporation to any third
party contractors for assistance in the preparation of said Budget.
3. Additional forms of compensation/benefits for each year of contract consist of:
*(a) Corporation will pay premium (except for $1.00) on a
$100,000.00 term life insurance policy. $167.00
(b) Corporation will pay for dues in the IAPSS, IASBO, and
other professional organizations related to the job.
(Corporation Cost per year) $580.00
(c) Corporation will pay IRS rate for business mileage.
(Cost-$00.56/mile-current IRS rate)
(d) A travel allowance to be paid by Corporation not to exceed
Fifteen Hundred Dollars per year $1,500.00
*(f) Payment by Corporation of Employee Long Term Disability
Insurance in the amount of Two Hundred Thirty-Six Dollars
and Twenty-Eight Cents per year $236.28
(g) VEBA contribution paid by Corporation to employee of
Five Hundred Seventy-Five Dollars per year $575.00
(h) Annual Board contribution to 401(a) Plan on behalf of employee
in the amount of Five Hundred Seventy-Five Dollars per year $575.00
*(i) Annual Board contribution to Group Health/Dental/Vision
Insurance premium (if employee elects not to be covered by
Union School Corporation’s Group Health Plan, then employee
shall be entitled to add this amount to employee’s salary) $7,320.00
(j) Union School Corporation, as Employer, as required by law, shall
pay one-half of Employee’s Social Security and Medicare taxes at
the rate of 7.65 percent (7.65%) of employee’s Base Salary as follows:
2015-2016 $8,797.50
2016-2017 $9,180.00
2017-2018 $9,562.50
Total cost of listed Employment contract provisions by year:
2015-2016 $134,750.78
2016-2017 $140,133.28
2017-2018 $145,515.78
*Indicates that the Board contribution may be adjusted if the carrier increases the premium for same level of coverage.
4. In the event that Union School Corporation is legally dissolved; becomes part of a consolidation or merges with another School Corporation prior to January 1, 2017 the parties stipulate that this Employment Agreement shall terminate and be of no force and effect after December 31, 2016.
5. Working Days & Sick & Personal Days: This Employment Agreement calls for Two Hundred Sixty (260) working days in each school year minus Twenty (20) paid vacation days, plus the following paid holidays: New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Good Friday, July 4th, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and the day following, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. The annual vacation leave allotment is provided and vested on July 1 of each school year. Unused vacation leave days do not carry over or accumulate for any purpose, but the employee has the option to “sell back” up to Ten (10) accrued but unused vacation leave days each year at a per diem computed by dividing the then current base salary by Two Hundred Sixty (260) days. Employee will be entitled to sick days & personal days pursuant to the existing Certified Teachers Contract presently in place and that employee presently has fourteen (14) sick days to be carried over into his new Employment Agreement.
6. Evaluation: Principal/Corporation Transportation Director/Superintendent Employee will be evaluated by the Board and rated using the same categories applied to teachers and other administrators: “highly effective”; “effective”, “improvement necessary”, or “ineffective”. Like any certified employee, all future salary changes will be based upon performance each June and may approve changes in base salary contribution or allowances at that time.
7. This Employment Agreement can be canceled by the Board of Trustee of Union School Corporation for the same list of reasons applicable to cancellation of the Employment Agreement of an “established teacher” found at Indiana Code 20-28-7.5-1(e). The employee can cancel this Employment Agreement by giving Union School Corporation Ninety (90) days written notice of his resignation.
Dated this 8th day of July, 2015.
Board of School Trustee-Union School Corporation