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delay is not needed,” he said. “To that I say, ‘bull’—it’s a cop-out.”
The original motion - that an index salary scale be adopted for all employees • was defeated unanimously because of reservations by board members that the classified and administrative pay schedules needed further - study.
The board then discussed the option of cutting the teachers’ pay scale off at level 16 - or after 16 years of service. Richard Smith of the RCEA commented on this: “You only save $8,800 by doing this,” he said. “And you penalize our most senior teachers. I don’t think it’s worth the savings.” At level 16 the teacher earns 150 percent of the starting salary.
When asked if the cut at this level was reasonable, Robert Estabrook, school superintendent said, “Yes, it’s reasonable - very reasonable in theory—not in practice, though, when you have employees above this step.” The final motion on the index salary scale was framed by Updike and included only teachers and only the steps up to 16. He proposed: “That we adopt an index salary scale for teachers only, up to step 16 with these reservations: (1) that funds be available for the buy-in; (2) that no salary will be cut; (3) that the administration begin a further in-depth study of an evaluation system for all employees as soon as possible and no later than May, 1983, with the board brought upto-date quarterly and that
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