Oct 19, 2005 By Steve Ostrosky 3 min read

WAYNESBURG – As a result of its new contract with the teachers union, the Central Greene School Board voted Tuesday to adjust how administrators will be compensated over the next two years. Directors approved a change in the multiplier used to determine salary increases based on a satisfactory evaluation, increasing the figure from 1.4 to two times the minimum salary increase for a teacher.

Business manager Walter Stout said the minimum increase for teachers under the new contract is $1,000.

Two administrators – athletic director and assistant high school principal – would have had increases that some board members felt were too close to that of the teachers, he said.

Directors William Hilverding and Ron Jesso joined Board President George Scott in voting against the action.

Scott said after the meeting he was not opposed to the change, but felt the Act 93 administrative compensation agreement should remain as negotiated.

“I think we should stick with what we have, and then renegotiate when the contract ends,” he said, noting the agreement expires at the end of the 2006-07 school year.

Neither Stout nor superintendent Dr. Jerome Bartley are included in the Act 93 agreement, Stout said. Director Joanne Brookover was absent Tuesday.

Last month, the board approved a five-year contract with the teachers that gives all 180 teachers in the Central Greene Education Association an average salary increase of 3 percent in each year of the agreement.

In another matter, Bartley updated the board on the district’s participation in a countywide, $320,000 four-year grant from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime & Delinquency.

Tenth and 12th grade students will complete the Pennsylvania Youth Survey to provide data to Greene County Human Services officials to develop intervention programs for the school district, he said.

“I know we’re excited to work with the county on this,” Bartley said.

Among other business, the board voted to terminate part-time middle school security officer Sandra Pettis, hired Jack Teets as weekend/holiday security at Waynesburg Central High School, hired Brenda Dulaney as custodian at Margaret Bell Miller Middle School, hired Victor Guthrie as percussion coordinator, and hired Betty Anderson as a long-term substitute employee at the middle school.

Directors also approved agreements with several transportation providers who operate single vans or specialty vehicles. The providers – Barbara Simpson, Don Powell, Zalar Busing, Melody Stephanik, Brenda Gilblom, and C.E. Bowers – will each be paid $3.58 per mile for the 2005-06 school year for their specific routes.

The board will hold its next committee meeting on Nov. 8, and the next business meeting is scheduled for Nov. 15.