The Galesburg Education Association has rejected an employee pay freeze for next year and it wasn’t really a close call.
98 percent of members of District 205’s teacher’s union said they didn’t want to accept the freeze.
The freeze proposed by Superintendent Ralph Grimm would save $1.2 million in scheduled salary increases next year, about $700,000 of that is teacher’s salaries.
Before last night’s vote, a special board meeting had been delayed in which the board was to vote on going forward with a total of $2 million in cuts and configurations of building closures.
It’s unclear how this will affect the rest of the budget reduction process, other than apparently the teachers salary won’t be freezed.
The proposed freeze included all employees though including administration.
This also comes on the heels on the board’s two incumbents with expiring terms dropping out of their re-election campaigns.
Bob Lindstrom and Josh Gibb both announced last week.
