COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – The Coldwater Community Schools Board of Education approved a series of two percent salary increases for staff and administrators that would cover this school year during a special meeting on Wednesday night.
They approved a contract agreement between the district and the Coldwater Education Association for the 2020-2021 fiscal year. Wages and benefits are negotiated annually between the district and the C.E.A..
Besides the two percent salary increase, the contract includes the continuing of all STEP and Schedule increases.
A contract agreement was also approved with the Coldwater Education Support Personnel Association. Also approved was a pay adjustment for all non-CESPA members and Central Office support staff members.
Superintendent Terry Ann Whelan said typically whatever C.E.A. gets in its contract, everybody else gets the same thing.
The board also approved administrator contracts for this school year and amended Whelan’s employment contract as Superintendent and Chief Financial Officer to include a two percent salary increase. She was initially going to freeze her pay after there were fears the school district was going to get its state funding slashed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Those fears were set aside in September when the state passed a budget that included no cuts in school funding.
In other business, the Board approved a series of furniture bids for the new Lakeland fourth and fifth grade building on Western Avenue.
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