Meeting Preview: City's Personnel Pay Plan, EML Grievance Hearing

Lakeville's City Council and School Board both meet tonight, and both have fairly active agendas.

Lakeville School Board meets at 4:30 p.m. this evening at the district office for a work session where the board will hold a grievence hearing for Lakeville's teachers union, Education Minnesota Lakeville.

The issue has to do with teachers who travel between Kenwood Trail and McGuire middle schools. McGuire starts and ends its day 15 minutes later Kenwood, and the teacher's union is requesting those teachers who travel from Kenwood in the morning, then to McGuire, be given a stipened to cover the extra 15 minutes of work time. The district however argues teachers can leave 15 minutes early.

The School Board will hear the grievance, and make a decision at a later date. 

The board will later hold separate discussions about kindergarten programming and long-range budget considerations.

At 7 p.m. tonight at City Hall, Lakeville's City Council will hold a regular meeting packed with a number of agenda items including the expected approval of the city's 2012-2013 pay plan. According to agenda documents, non-union city employees will receive a 1.75 percent pay raise in 2012 and a 1.5 percent pay increase in 2013. The pay increases are the same negotiated by the union for Lakeville's Police Sergeants and the city, which are also expected to be approved tonight.

The council will also vote on resolutions approving the plans and bid date for the $1.1 million Heritage Center rennovation project, as well as the $8.9 million 2012 street reconstruction project.

Lakeville Patch will have more information regarding both meetings upon their conclusion.