Dear Colleagues,
RAISES:
So far I have tried to lay out what we have agreed upon in negotiations as well as some areas where we have differences. Specifically, in the last update I spoke to evaluation, training, and time.
In November we helped pass a 5.5 mill levy for school operating funds. Those additional dollars, over $5 million per year, will start to be collected in January 2017. Surprisingly, when we returned to the bargaining table at the end of November we were informed by Treasurer Gainer that the district does not have any money. In fact, it would be all they could do to scrape by