The Marion School Committee’s October 24 meeting ratified a new three-year employee contract agreement with the Sippican School Support Association.
The association represents Sippican School’s cafeteria workers, paraprofessionals, and administrative staff. That’s approximately 25 school employees, as Superintendent Dr. Michael Nelson explained. He said the district’s last contract with the association had recently expired and both sides had worked hard to come to a new agreement.
“I want to say how much we value their work,” Nelson said after the committee’s unanimous ratification vote.
In other action, the committee accepted the donation of a variety of books to the Sippican School library. The VASE program (Volunteers At Sippican Elementary) has donated The Curious Why by Angela DiTerlizza, Secrets of Astrology by Carole Taylor and DK, and Over and Under the Waves by Kate Messner. VASE is a volunteer organization open to parents, teachers, and community members who help raise and distribute funds to the Pre-K to grade 6 students for a variety of extracurricular and enrichment activities.
The Marion Teachers Association has supplied the library with Home in the Woods by Eliza Wheeler, Inventors by Robert Winston, and Sincerely by Emerson Weber. Doreen Lopes (Sippican School Interim Principal 2023-2024) and Peter Crisafulli (Sippican School Assistant Principal 2021-2024) donated Collaboration Station by Shannon Olsenn for the 6th Grade Class.
Nelson announced that special education teacher Taylor Nelson has resigned, because she is moving out of the state. Dr. Nelson noted she is not a relative of hers.
Committee chair April Nye announced that the next Marion School Committee meeting will be December 5, but no firm date has been set as of today for a Joint School Committee meeting.
The Marion School Committee will next meet on December 5 at 6:00 pm at Sippican School, 16 Spring Street.
Marion School Committee
by Michael J. DeCicco