Additional Details Emerge on School Board Meeting--Tuesday--Mar 21--7:00AM--340 Fair Street District Office

After the emotional session at last weeks Evansville School Board meeting, a proposal was put on the table to add two seasonal summer outdoor employees and continue two employees for a cost of $26,050. Realizing the irony of adding at the same time student teaching was being cut, Supr. Carvin asked that the item be tabled for later consideration.

The "cost" for the past summer use of employees was $30,023, according to the media packet. I am including these details since "notice" to the Review will not reach the public till Wednesday.

The proposal on the table for the special meeting is to hire two non-union landscape-turf employees at $12 per hour with no benefits. In addition there would be two summer positions at $9 per hr or $9,350 for the season. The proposed total cost for the upcoming spring-summer season would be $26,050.

The difference between the past and the proposed cost is $3,973 and is termed a "Savings".

There was no listing of any alternatives to this proposal or what the costs of alternatives would be.

In addition, there is a proposal to use people sentenced for community service through the Evansville court to do lawn mowing and other tasks providing that the convictions involved do not pose any risk to students. Also, some areas of the school grounds have been termed "NO MOW" areas and this will save in some time.

Future Proposed Action: Proposal to use the "Savings" noted earlier to make the Grounds/Maintenance position a year round position. This proposal was not noted in the March oral Superintendents report.

It is not clear whether this idea was included in the computation of what the "GAP" is. As the Observer has noted, we seem to be observing a lot of "gaps" depending on who is proposing what additions and deletions. It sure is hard to have a discussion about a gap as long as it is in flux----. Anyway, as soon as The Observer gets more info on the gap, I will let you know.