Board
Approves New
Salary Schedule For
Clerical Employees
After nearly two years of olf-and
on-again study, clerical employees
of the Brunswick County Schools
have a new salary schedule.
The office support personnel sal
ary plan was approved unanimously
by the Brunswick County Board of
Education Monday night with no
comment from members.
Employees will receive back pay
under the new schedule retroactive
to Jan. 1. Finance Officer Rudi Fal
lon said it would cost approximately
$50,000 in additional money to fund
the schedule for the period of Jan. 1
through the remainder of the fiscal
year that ends June 30.
"We tried to remove some of the
inequities of the old system and to
recognize years of experience,"
Ralph Ward, personnel director, said
after the meeting.
No one s salary will be reduced
with implementation of the new
plan; if a cuiTent salary is higher
than an employee's salary would be
on the new schedule, the salary will
be frozen until it catches up.
Pay increases about one-quarter
step with each year of experience.
Employees will be credited with
years of experience with the Bruns
wick County Schools or for related
experience elsewhere. Also, an em
ployee with credits equal to two
years of college studies is eligible
for an additional step in pay. Both
work experience and education must
be documented.
The schedule classifies all office
support personnel positions in five
levels. The lowest step for a first
level employee with one year or less
| of experience would be a monthly
J salary of $1,175.50, while at the
j highest step of the fifth level, an em
[" ploycc with 43 years of experience
: could cam $2,531.50 a month. First
'v level jobs include positions such as
assistant school secretary and central
office receptionist, while top-level
I jobs arc those such as executive as
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for needy people at its meeting last
Thursday.
As one of its main scrvicc pro
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buy glasses for low income or other
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Proceeds from the club's July 17
golf tournament at Sea Trail Plant
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brook is chairman of the project.
Mark Lewis will chair the com
mittee that screens applicants for the
annual club scholarship to a West
Brunswick High School graduate
who continues their education
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Bill Dearman, executive vice
president of the South Brunswick
Islands Chamber of Commerce gave
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The club's next Adopt-A-High
way cleanup of Shallottc's Main
Street is set for April 24, Eggert
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All salaries arc based on a 40
hour work week; when the study be
gan, the committee learned that
some central office employees had
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All new employees and employ
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If an employee voluntarily applies
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New Look At Assistants?
The board's policy committee
will take a fresh look at teacher as
sistant qualifications, including a
policy that requires all teacher assis
tants to qualify as bus drivers.
The review will come at the re
quest of Board Member Polly Russ.
"1 would like to see the board in
crease the qualifications for tcachcr
assistants," she said, while "grandfa
thering" current assistants. "They
should be a very vital part of our
classroom."
Likely candidates might include
individuals with two-year certifica
tion in early childhood education
and recently certified tcachcrs who
haven't found full-time positions,
she suggested.
The current policy is "confusing,"
may discourage some potential
teachcr assistants from applying be
cause they are not qualified to drive
a bus or keep individuals who only
wan', to drive a bus from doing so.
Assistants may not be in class dur
ing the busy start of the day or at the
end of the day when planning is
done, she said.
The dual qualification was enact
ed to assure a source of adult bus
drivers when the state mandated that
all bus drivers be age 18 or older.
Personnel Actions
The board filled several teaching
positions on an interim basis and
took other routine personnel actions.
Hired were Joyce Burroughs,
Supply, elementary teacher. Supply
Elementary; Yvonne Keith, Castle
Hayne, Chapter I pre-kindergarten
teacher, Lincoln Primary; Kitty
Skipper, Lcland, assistant clerical,
Lcland Middle; Belinda Cobbs,
Wilmington, Chapter I clerical assis
tant, Southport Elementary; Pamela
Dean, Southport, and Terry Arm
strong, Little River, S.C., exception
al children's teacher assistants, all
schools.
The board approved leaves of ab
sence for Nancy Jemigan, elemen
tary teacher, Southport Elementary;
Susan Jordan, custodian, South
Brunswick High; accepted the resig
nation of Margia Leach, elementary
teacher, Leland Middle; and ap
proved 10 new substitute teachers.
Other Business
In other business, the board:
?Moved its 6:30 p.m. April 7 meet
ing to Union Primary School from
the central office, and set a special
meeting March 16, at 5:30 p.m. at
the central office to handle a person
nel issue and consider a literacy pro
ject grant proposal. A hearing in ex
ecutive session on a student matter
is set for 6:30 p.m.
?Approved, on sccond reading, a re
vised board agenda policy; and gave
first reading to a revised student
smoking policy proposed in con
junction with a "Smoke Free Teen
Program" developed by Rita Hat
cher, drug abuse prevention and
wellness coordinator.
?Adopted a Tech Prep agreement
between the schools and Brunswick
Community College.
?Recognized Lt. Ronald Hewetl for
his selection as North Carolina's
DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance
Education) Officer of the Year.
?Reviewed a resolution of support
from the Resources Development
Commission, which also would like
to meet joinUy with the school board.
No date was proposed Monday.
?Awarded a 5196,016 bid to install
wooden floors in the county's three
high school gymnasiums to R.L.
Dresser of Raleigh.
?Assistant Superintendent Bill Tur
ner that all central office employees
and school board members now
have identification badges, which
will be provided to all high school
students starting next year.
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