It didn t sit right with me, said Brannen, who is the junior class president.
Belmond-Klemme junior Zackry Brennan speaks to the school board during the public forum on April 15. Jaci Smith
What didn t sit right, according to Brannen, was the fact that district administrators were seeking to remove from bargaining all non state-mandated items, leaving teacher base pay as the lone item to negotiate.
All other items, according to a state law passed in 2017, including longevity or education pay, holidays, overtime, sick or bereavement time, workloads and employment hours, are considered permissive, meaning they can be negotiated but do not have to be.