Bryson admins get raises

BRYSON – School administrators received salary increases for the 2020-21 school year as part of the BISD board meeting July 27.

Superintendent Greg London received a four-percent salary increase, Principal Gary Kirby received a five-percent increase while Athletic-Director/Assistant Principal Jason Briles and Student Services Director Debbie Hearne each received three percent increases.

The board also found out preliminary and certified tax values fell within less than a million of each other. Prelimi-nary values in Jack County were at $207,704,149 with certified values at $208,313,441. The district is still waiting for certified numbers from Young County with preliminary values sitting at 13,441,239.

Bryson is planning on a $1.40 tax rate per $100 valuation with maintenance and operation at 96 cents and Interest and sinking at 44 cents.

The board also approved paying for an $8/month/employee increase in health insurance for its 30 employees.

The board also approved new courses for the Fall: video game programming and advanced video game programming. London said teacher JR Stearns currently has five people in the program for AV art and audio and wanted to add the computer programming side of it.

London said the courses, which the TEA didn’t develop but thought enough of them to okay them, are “innovative.”