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Impasse continues in contract talks Union members and supporters pack District 115 board meeting were scheduled to exchange their final and best offers Wednesday, Oct. 28. Yorkville teachers have been working without a contract since their previous three-year contract expired June 30. The two sides are scheduled to
By MATT SCHURY mschury@kendallcountynow.com The Yorkville School District and Yorkville Education Association (YEA) continued to be at an impasse this week in teacher contract negotiations as the two sides
meet again next Monday, Nov. 2 and the Illinois Labor Relations Board is expected to post the two contracts on their website Nov. 4 if an agreement isn’t reached before then. School district officials declared an impasse earlier this month after the two sides were unable to come to an agreement. Yorkville teachers packed a school district board meeting Monday night held in the Yorkville High School library.
Most of the attendees wore red t-shirts with white letters that said “We Support Yorkville” and “Yorkville Education Association.” Dave Dockstader, president of the Yorkville School Board, said he thinks it will be good to post the contract proposals online for the public to see. “The guessing is gone on where people are at and it is what it is,” he said. One of the big issues the two
Halloween arrives early in Yorkville
sides continue to debate includes teacher compensation, including “step increases” and performance based compensation. In a press release issued by the school district late last Friday, school district officials said the steps increase are “automatic pay increases that are granted in addition to increases in a teacher’s base salary.”
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Meadow Nelson, age 18 months of Plano, isn’t sure about this big green dragon Saturday morning at the Yorkville Biz Boo.
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undreds of area children, attired in their Halloween costumes and accompanied by their parents, had fun collecting candy at local businesses during the Yorkville Chamber of
Commerce’s annual Biz Boo! Business Trick-orTreat event Saturday. Several of the businesses offered prize drawings, games and other fun activities to their special visitors.
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Former U.S. Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert pleaded guilty early Wednesday morning in federal court in Chicago to evading banking laws in a hush-money scheme. According to the Associated Press, Hastert Dennis agreed to a deal Hastert with federal prosecutors that recommends he serve no more than six months in prison. The deal would allow Hastert to avert a trial in the case. A judge, however, could go beyond that recommendation and give Hastert up to five years behind bars, according to the AP. In exchange for the plea, prosecutors were expected to drop a charge stemming from
lying to the FBI. The AP described Hastert’s brief written statement as narrow, saying that he structured bank withdrawals in a way that they would not be detected. The judge asked Hastert, “Did you know that what you were doing was wrong?” He responded, “Yes, sir,” the AP reported. The change-of-plea hearing was the longtime GOP leader’s first court appearance since his arraignment in June, when he pleaded not guilty in the same courtroom. Hastert was accused in a May 28 indictment of handing as much as $100,000 in cash at a time to someone referred to only as “Individual A” to ensure past misconduct by Hastert against the person never became public.
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