- November 22, 2024
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A total of 876 Flagler County Schools employees who were not eligible to receive the governor’s $1,000 disaster relief payments for educators and first responders will now collect a $1,000 payment from the school district itself.
At a special meeting on Aug. 24, the School Board ratified Memorandums of Understandings with the district employees’ two unions – the Flagler County Educators Association and the Flagler Educational Support Professional Association.
The governor’s payments from federal coronavirus relief funds were distributed to classroom teachers and principals only. A total of 679 teachers in the district received those payments, according to Flagler Schools Director of Finance Patty Wormeck.
The district will now make equal payments to employees excluded from the governor’s awards. They include 725 support personnel, 111 instructors and 40 administrators.
The payments will be made before Sept. 1.
According to the MOUs, the district employees excluded from the governor’s payments “also sacrificed much of their own time and personal expenses to ensure that the 2020 to 2021 school year afforded families options in the face of a worldwide pandemic.”
To be eligible for district payment, the employees had to be employed full-time for at least half of the 2020-21 school year and to have been reemployed full time for the current school year.
School Board Vice Chair Colleen Conklin made a motion to approve the MOUs which also covered adjustments to emergency leave, and health insurance contributions. The board unanimously approved the motion.
