Nurses

We're taking school nurses out of order, as a number of the school nurses are here.
The current nurse of the year is addressing the committee about the cut of half of a supervisor position.
Monfredo is running through the duties of these supervisors.
We currently have 42 full time nurses; a nurse coordinator, and 1.5 nurse supervisors.
The nurse supervisor who is half time will be half time covering in the schools (for a full time position)
Boone says this is as result of the concern over having nurses in the buildings (per school committee and elsewhere), giving additional support to nurses in the building (the money has been cut from the substitute line).
The mayor is moving through the thought here: this in fact increases the amount of person-time in the buildings.
One of the nurse supervisors is saying that we have only 41 nurses in the buildings.
Boone says there are 42....Luster comes to the table and says that we have 42 positions, 41 people, and an open position.
Biancheria asks what the dollar amount is....$13,000.
The mayor asks what that gets us...that would lose us a halftime in the schools.
Novick: what would do with the halftime position? It would be assigned to a particular school based on accuity (the schools are evaluated based on the students in the building and their health needs; some schools have two nurses, some have a fulltime nurse, some have a halftime nurse, shared between two buildings)
Mayor O'Brien is working the pay difference: this gets us more nurses in the schools, but it cuts the pay of this person. Might we get the pay up someway while keeping the person halftime supervisor, halftime nurse in the school?
Mullaney recommends moving the account as it is, and if there is money later, we can talk about it later.
Mayor O'Brien recommends passing account as is, backfilling later if needed, for funding possible overtime for additional supervisory work (for monetary and supervisory needs), if it is needed by the administration.
Foley points out that admin can come back as needed through the year.