The Menahga College Board signed a memorandum of understanding with Schooling Minnesota Menahga (EMM), the lecturers’ union, to forgo the Well being Insurance coverage Transparency Act (HITA) bid course of.
The board mentioned the matter at their Tuesday, Jan. 17 assembly.
Superintendent Jay Kjos defined that medical health insurance is due in July.
“Once we met with our present supplier, they shared our utilization as a bunch versus how a lot we pay for premiums. We used extra {dollars} than we paid in premiums, so if we go to HITA bid, which means we break the contract with our present supplier who has a 9% (price) cap,” Kjos stated.
As a result of utilization is “so scorching,” Kjos stated premiums would seemingly rise if the district went out to bid.
EMM agreed to skip the HITA course of in 2023 to make sure premiums won’t rise greater than 9%.
The memorandum agrees to maintain the present medical health insurance provider, Sourcewell. The settlement is efficient July 1, 2023 by June 30, 2025. If each events agree it’s of their greatest curiosity, the memo states that bidding could resume in 2024.
Kjos additionally clarified {that a} decision “directing the administration to make reductions in packages and positions, if wanted,” is an annual protocol. “It doesn’t imply we’re predicting cuts.”
Board members Dave Treinen and Julia Kicker have been absent.
In different enterprise, the board did as follows:
- Accredited Brianne Helminen as a paraprofessional, starting Jan. 17.
- Accepted letters of resignation from Kayla Polasek, expertise integrationist, efficient Jan. 16 and Shyla Netland, paraprofessional, efficient Jan. 25.
- Accredited assignments for the next extra-curricular coach/advisors: Luke Davidson and Todd Frie, co-assistant varsity wrestling and co-junior excessive wrestling and Austin Rife, junior excessive wrestling.
- Accredited lane modifications for Cory Kapphahn, Todd Frie and Holly Westad.
- Discovered that the Menahga Scholar Council Scholar Council will host Snow Week in the course of the week of Feb. 13. They determined to forgo the Snow Week Court docket and embody grades 7 and eight in festivities on Wednesday, Feb. 15.
- Eliminated “shaming” language from its college meal coverage, as directed by the Minnesota College Board Affiliation. The next was deleted: “The college district could present an alternate meal that meets federal and state necessities to a pupil who doesn’t have ample funds within the pupil’s account or can not pay money for a meal. The college district will accommodate particular dietary wants with respect to alternate meals.” The Menahga College District at the moment doesn’t cost for breakfast or lunch.
The following common college board assembly is 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 21 on the media heart.