SEN. FLEXER LEADS SENATE PASSAGE OF BILL TO ALLOW SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS TO BE PAID FOR THEIR TIME

HARTFORD – State Senator Mae Flexer today led Senate passage of a bill which – for the first time in state history – will allow towns to set salaries for Board of Education members. Under current state law, school board members are the only town officials who are prohibited from being paid a salary.

Senate Bill 356, “AN ACT CONCERNING COMPENSATION OF BOARD OF

EDUCATION MEMBERS,” passed the state Senate on a partisan xx-xx vote, with Democrats in favor and Republicans opposed, and now heads to the House of Representatives for consideration.

“Board of education members spend an awful lot of time away from their families on policy matters affecting our children. They work incredibly hard, and it seems wrong that they are the only municipal officials who are prohibited under state statue from being compensated,” Sen. Flexer said. “This bill will remedy that wrong.”

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