The math is done on a pay raise for teachers assistants in the North Pike School District.
Now board members will have to decide whether to award a raise, and how much.
District business manager Tina Griffin told board members at the May 3 meeting that a raise of 25 cents per hour would cost the district about $15,000; 50 cents, about $30,000.
“I’d like to at least give 25 cents, and may we could do more at a later date,” board member Scott Campbell said.
Superintendent Dennis Penton said holding off before granting much of a raise might be prudent.
“I believe we’ll get a new funding formula (from the state) next year, and it may have new pay levels in it,” Penton said.
Base salaries for teachers and assistants are set by the Legislature.
Lawmakers have struggled the past couple of years to replace the Mississippi Adequate Education Program, which now governs much of the state’s education spending, though it has rarely been fully funded.
Budget deliberations are underway in public school districts, whose fiscal years will start over on July 1.
In other personnel actions, the board:
• Accepted the resignations of high school teachers Kathryn McKinley and Kristopher Smith; middle school teachers William Brian Biggs, Jennifer Biggs and Kayla Jones; elementary teachers Jordan Sticker, Georgianna Lewman, lisa Lott Paulk, Heather Smith and Ann Marie Cole; career center counselor Angela Rushing; elementary nurse Denise Owen; and bus monitor Anita Alexander.
• Rehired central office staff Vicki Mitzenberg as accounts payable clerk, Connie Cloy as payroll and insurance clerk, Amy Brumfield and Phyllis Herrin as secretaries and Timmy Price, maintenance.
• Rehired classified personnel Pam Alexander, Eva Bass, Kresta Blanton, Lisa Freeman, Diedra Lofton, Demario Richard, Vicki Stogner and Joanna Westbrook at the high school; Monica Alexander, Ashley Carr, Faye Dawson, Sonya Fair, Tina Martin, Velveeta May, Dana Rutland and Katelyn Sisco at the middle school; Tammy Barnett, Leigh Ann Badon, Jaclyn Ball, Valinda Cade, Mary Dykes, Erica Fleming Pickett, Erica Gardner, LaTonuna Gillard, Cheryl Hampton, Bonnie Jackson, Lawanda Jackson, Charwanda Jordan, Brittany Lambert, Morgan Pickard, Kathy McCarlie, Teresa McKinley, Konya Munson, Nancy Rowell, Shanita Scott, Cynthia Trvis, Jerica Watts, Amy Willingham, Cheryl Young and Brooke Ward at the elementary school;
Cafeteria managers Cheryl Nobles, Pam Boyd and Regina Morgan; cafeteria cashiers Tracy Johnson, Darlene Harness, Lanette Granger, Nanette McEwen, Susan Fortenberry and Mildred Bates; cooks and servers Sara Patterson, Chantay Johnson, Janeth Brister, Stacy Boyd, Denise Cain, Kelsey Smith, Glenda Rimes, Renee Hanks, Michelle Earhart, Dorothy Ard, Pearl Lampton, Gloria Hamilton, Victoria Evereyy, Deborah Moak, Teresa Smith and Wilfred Grady;
Full-time bus drivers Glenn Bird, Cindy Brister, Mike Brister, Nancy Chandler, Lonnie Cox, Jeffrey Cupit, Vickie Daniels, Floyd Davis, Lagene Deer, Laurea Lee Holman, Sue Holmes, Phillip Jagers. Gerald Johnston, Mary Lomax, June Messina, Shelia Morgan, Louis Perkins, Glanda Richard, Carole Rider, Kristi Rushing, Bill Sinclair, Heather Simmons, Stephen Slump, Gary Smith, Kristopher Smith, Alvin Stewart, Letitia Stinson, Joseph St. Philip, Laverna Summerlin, Paul Watkins, Sybrena Williams, Ruth Young; substitute drivers Kristi Bird, Darryl Brock, Shelby Duck, Will Gunnell, Felicia Jackson, Dustin Lott, George Lott, Kevin Martin, Wes McCullough, Dan Miller, Paul Nunnery, Dana Rutland, Dustin Sisco, Hiram Smith, Kevin Smith, Joe Taylor, Erik Towne, Tom Van Norman, Sonya Wallace, Lynn Weaver, Ardemis Wesley III; transportation department staff Retha Hale as secretary, Eric Boyd and Chris Linge as mechanics, bus monitors Patricia St. Philip, Tonia Thomas and Bailee Smith.
• Rehired Sherry Pigott as career center secretary.
• Hired elementary teachers Kayla Byrd, Jillian Fuller and Alyssa Lusk and assistant teacher Minette Morgan.
