Board honors trustee Wade
BY SUZANNE LOUDAMY Staff writer

The Whitehouse ISD board of trustees honored one of their own, Jason Wade, for five years of service to the board during this week's regular meeting.

The board accepted several donations on behalf of the Key Club. Each was in the amount of $25 and donors were Bluebonnet Publishing LLC, Thomas Tatum, Ray Terry and SLLE Management LLC. A donation of $550 worth of lunches provided during the WHS Fish Camp was accepted from Chick-fil-A.

Approval was given to several items from the superintendent. They included approval of an annual review of investment policy and resolution to appoint officers and approval of vendors. Also okayed was an interlocal agreement concerning property casualty insur- ance.

Two easements for electrical utilities were granted to Oncor Electric Delivery Company at the new elementary campus site.

In personnel matters, trustees approved the 2007-2008 compensation plan salary schedule with the addition of a pay grade 12 establishing a midpoint in the administrative scale for the superintendent.

"That midpoint was set at $126,000," said Daniel Dupree, assistant superintendent.

"The teacher/other professionals salar y scale was approved with a $36,000 minimum teacher salary," said Sherrie Lloyd, director of finance. "The teacher scale was adjusted for the $36,000 minimum salary and each teacher will receive a $1,700 annual increase over their 2006-07 salary."

Lloyd went on to say that a survey of salaries in the administrative/ professional category was conducted by the district and job classifications and pay ranges were adopted.

"A salar y range is determined for each pay grade of the scale by establishing a midpoint salar y based on the survey data," said Lloyd. "The stipend schedule for extra-curricular salaries was approved with a three percent increase and bus driver pay was set at $14 per hour based on route length."

"During the budget process, a three percent pay increase for the administrative/professional category and a five percent pay increase for the manual trade and clerical/paraprofessional categories were approved based on the midpoint of the prior year scale," said Lloyd.

Following an executive session, the board approved the employment of Shara Armstrong as a third grade teacher on the Higgins campus.