We were very hopeful that we could settle today, June 16, but after LNEA presented a counter-proposal to the package presented by the board's team this morning, the board's team said they preferred to call it quits for today, and schedule another session for 10am Monday, June 23.
The good news is that the board's proposal this morning included a 30-minute per week increase in elementary planning time! If this part of the proposal is approved, the minimum minutes required would change from 220 to 250 minutes per week.
We are still trying to settle the issue of how many contract days we will work (less than 189) if we are going to add 15 minutes to the work day. In conjunction with that, we are still talking about how many snow days will be built in, and what the salary and fringe benefit increase will be. The board's proposal this morning offered no increase over their last offer, which was a $500 increase on the base, and zero increase in health fringe benefits. This represents just over a 4% increase (average).
There are other changes to the contract that have been tentatively agreed to, but all that will be spelled out later, after we iron out these final issues.
Many thanks to Kelly Berry and Robin Crim who attended this morning's session to support us. We appreciate their efforts. We hope to see you at the session next Monday. Regardless of that, we will keep you posted. Keep thinking positive thoughts for us, and we'll all hope we can settle next week and get on with our summer.
Linda, Ginger, Betty, Kay and Shad
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