The Kaskaskia College Board of Trustees has approved a 4 percent pay increase for non-union college staff members. The 4 percent increase for non-union employees takes place in Fiscal Year 2025, which begins on July 1.
KC President George Evans says the college will also work with its staff who are in unions to make sure they are compensated adequately.
“The other ones are negotiated through the collective bargaining agreements, and we work with those different unions to ensure that their pay is being adequate as well. Some of them are locked in, and we are getting close to negotiating for next year. … We want to make sure that we are taking care of our employees, so we will be approaching the carpenters’ union and the KC TOP union to ensure that we can adjust those salaries to ensure that everybody got at least a 4 percent increase, for those individuals that are on the lower end of the payment threshold at KC.”
The board of trustees also approved a number of personnel moves on Monday. First year faculty Cody Paul, Katy Knolhoff and Mary Beth Suedmeyer were approved for second year probationary employment. Second year faculty Josie Spihlmann was approved for third year probationary employment, and third year faculty Lesley Brower, Tim Wight, Kaylee Holmes and Amy Woltering were approved for tenured employment. The board also approved the hiring of Tara Kellermann as a financial aid advisor, Janelle Lyons and Dean Meredith as buildings and grounds technicians and Nathan Young as assistant professor of theatre and communications.
In other action, the board approved a bid of $51,554, submitted by Courts and Cracks of Effingham, to complete repairs to the KC tennis courts.
Board members also approved the purchase of an automotive scissor alignment lift from Mohawk/Hunter Engineering Company of Amsterdam, New York, at a cost of $47,314.19. The purchase will be fully funded by Rev Up EV Community College Initiative grant funding.
