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MCCPS Board of Trustees

Minutes

Personnel Committee Meeting

Date and Time

Monday February 7, 2022 at 7:00 PM

Location

Personnel Committee Meetings
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Meeting ID: 914 6251 4433
Passcode: MCCPSper

17 Lime Street
Marblehead, Massachusetts
01945

Committee Members Present

Artie Sullivan (remote), Jen Stoddard (remote), Katie Sullivan (remote), Peter Cheney (remote), Peter Cohen (remote)

Committee Members Absent

John Steinberg

Guests Present

Molly Wright (remote), William Rockwell (remote)

I. Opening Items

A.

Call the Meeting to Order

Artie Sullivan called a meeting of the Personnel Committee Committee of MCCPS Board of Trustees to order on Monday Feb 7, 2022 at 7:01 PM.

B.

Record Attendance and Guests

C.

Accept Remote Participation

Katie Sullivan made a motion to In light of the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, Governor Baker issued an emergency Order on March 12, 2020, allowing public bodies greater flexibility in utilizing technology in the conduct of meetings under the Open Meeting Law. Can we make a motion to accept this Executive Order for this meeting of the Personnel Committee, on February 7, 2022.
Peter Cheney seconded the motion.
The committee VOTED to approve the motion.

D.

Approve Minutes

Vote postponed to next meeting

II. Old Business

A.

Discussion of internal survey instrument

Committee reviewed draft document of survey statements that John Steinberg shared.

Edits made:

Use either HOS or Head of School to be consistent

Add three separate statements: grade level, department level, school level 

33 statements with rating scales

The faculty will be doing 3 surveys and this one will be coming out first. 

Peter Cohen will send along the edits on the draft of the survey statements and ask John to do a second draft before we send it to the BoT.

 

B.

Discussion of Salary Comparison

Peter and Artie presented the four sending district wages comparison chart of teachers with Bachelor's degrees averages and Master's degrees averages, then compared to a second MCCPS salary document from FY '20 '21 '22.  (See attached charts.) Peter explained the attempts over the last two years to bring compensations up to be competitive with nearby districts. This information will be shared with FinCom and then presented to the BoT at the next meeting, as was requested.

C.

Discussion of Faculty Tenure Program

Peter Cohen reached out to some other Charter Schools and those that have tenure also have unions.  Most schools give out one year employment agreements and MCCPS in the past has given 2 year agreements instead.

D.

Personnel Committee Membership & Schedule

E.

POLICY REVIEW

III. Action Items

A.

Review Action Items from Meeting

Next meeting date: March 14, 2020

IV. Closing Items

A.

Adjourn Meeting

There being no further business to be transacted, and upon motion duly made, seconded and approved, the meeting was adjourned at 8:11 PM.

Respectfully Submitted,
Katie Sullivan
Documents used during the meeting
  • 2022 MCCPS teacher satisfaction survey.docx
  • Distrct Payscales, FY22.pdf
  • Salary Study FY20-FY22.pdf