WARREN — The Warren Board of Education has ratified a new contract with the school district’s 50 food service workers and a new three-year contract with the district’s three carpenters.

The board approved the agreements at its meeting Tuesday.

Treasurer Karen Sciortino said the agreement with Ohio Association of Public School Employees Chapter 288, which represents the food service and cafeteria workers, will receive a $3 per hour increase for the 2023-24 year, which is the final year of the current contract that expires June 30, 2024. They will then receive a 4.89 percent increase the 2024-25 year, and a 3 percent increases in both the 2025-26 and 2026-27 years.

Sciortino said the agreement will cost the district $200,000 each year for four years.

The agreement with the Indiana / Kentucky / Ohio Regional Council of Carpenters, which represents three employees, will be 4.89 percent in the 2023-24 year and 3 percent increases for the 2024-25 and 2025-26 years.

Sciortino said the agreement will cost the district less than $20,000 per year for three years.

ADDITIONAL PROPERTY

In other business, the board approved a real estate transfer between the school district and the Trumbull County Land Reutilization Corp. for a parcel located at 1041 Woodland St. NE on the Warren G. Harding High School property.

Superintendent Steve Chiaro said there is a driveway located by the property at the back entrance of the high school off Woodland on one lot that the district is acquiring at no cost. He said the parcel was the location of a former house that was torn down. A road was built there into the school complex property.

“This will give us additional space when people are coming in. The one lot was small so now there is another lot we can use. This also helps create a great bus loop when the buses come in that way in the morning,” Chiaro said.

The board also recognized several retirements. Retiring are Tammy Church, elementary teacher; Tammi Penman, special education teacher; Deborah Bufano, manager information services; Dormay Burk, secretary; Alfred Crouse and Michael Dean, janitors; and Janice Pearson, cafeteria manager.

In other action, the board:

• Announced graduation will be at 7 p.m. May 25 at Packard Music Hall with 24 honor students in the class;

• Approved the Warren FIRST Robotics team to attend a regional event June 2 to 5 at Worchester Polytechic Institute’s Harrington Auditorium at $406 per student with funding from the parent booster organization;

• Approved the city installing rain gauges at Jefferson, Lincoln and Willard PK-8 schools that were purchased by the city’s pollution control department and will be owned by the city and routinely maintained by the AECOM engineering firm;

• Approved a $297,254 emergency connectivity grant from Universal Service Administrative Co. to provide at-home devices for district students;

• Will begin discussing flooring for the new wellness / recreation center;

• Announced meetings for June through August will be in the administration building board meeting room.