SCHOOL WARRANT
BRENTWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
To the inhabitants of the School District of Brentwood, in the County of Rockingham and said State, qualified to vote on District affairs:
You are hereby notified to meet at the Swasey Central School in said District on SATURDAY, THE FIFTH DAY OF MARCH, 2005, AT 9:00 AM, to act upon the following subjects:
1. Shall the School District raise and appropriate the sum of $3,978,598 for the support of the schools, for the payment of salaries for the School District officials and agents, and for the payment for the statutory obligations of the School District? (The Budget Committee recommends this appropriation. The School Board recommends $3,978,598 as set forth on said budget.)
2. Shall the School District enter into a collective bargaining agreement with the Brentwood Teachers Association (the union representing teachers in the School District) covering the three (3) year period from September 1, 2005 to August 31, 2008 and approve the cost items included therein?
Those cost items include, in summary: (a) continuation of existing non-salary benefits with an increase in the district’s share of health insurance premiums for Point of Service two-person and family plans by 2% in the second year and 3% in the third year; and (b) the following salary increase schedule: first year – 6.75% increase over the 2004-2005 rates; second and third years – increase over the previous year rates of between 2% and 4% based upon the Consumer Price Index for the previous 12 months.
The approximate increase in the cost of non-salary benefits and teacher salaries and salary related benefits because of this agreement and step increases for each of the three (3) years (subject to change resulting from changes in the number of and in the educational degrees and years of experience of teachers employed) over the preceding year will be:
$120,132 in the first year;
$ 87,037 in the second year;
$ 93,199 in the third year.
And, further, raise and appropriate the sum of $120,132 for the 2005-2006 year, such sum representing the additional costs attributable to the increase in salaries and salary and non-salary related benefits over those included as part of Article 1, the 2005-2006 budget? (The Budget Committee recommends this appropriation. The School Board recommends this appropriation.)
3. Shall the School District, if Article 2 is defeated, authorize the School Board to call one special meeting, at its option, to address Article 2 cost items only?
4. To hear reports of agents, auditors, and committees or officers heretofore chosen and to pass any vote relating thereto.
5. To transact any other business that may come before this meeting.