The Atlantic Community School District’s Board of Education will meet in a Special Session Thursday evening at the High School. During the 6-p.m. meeting in the High School Media Center, the Board will act on ratifying a 2015-16 tentative agreement with the district’s Non-Certified Employees.

During their meeting on March 15th, the Atlantic School Board vote against ratifying the Non-Certified Employees 2015-16 tentative contract agreement, which called for a 47-cent per hour increase in pay, which would cost the district $87, 584. Board member Phil Hascall said “He struggled with” the increase, and other board members agreed.

Hascall said it’s not that he doesn’t think people don’t deserve a raise, but in his business and elsewhere, it’s hard to justify a nearly three-percent raise. “It’s sends a message to the rest of the employees who haven’t [yet] settled.” Board member Rod Hartwig said the amount was “A little higher than I thought it would be,” and Hascall said he didn’t want to vote for something that might result in the elimination of the para-educators.