District Proposal to LMEA

Description

Summary of LM School District’s Settlement Offer to the LM Education Association August 21, 2013 Below is a summary of the Line Mountain School District proposed revisions to the teachers’ contract which expired June 30, 2012. The term of the agreement shall be for five (5) years beginning on July 1, 2012 and will continue in full force and effect until June 30, 2017. The professional employee’s minimum workday shall consist of seven (7) hours and forty‐five (45) minutes. The previous workday was seven (7) hours and thirty (30) minutes. Employees would be required to be on site for a total of seven (7) hours and forty‐five (45) minutes. During that time period they receive a thirty (30) minute lunch break and must receive an average of forty‐six (46) minutes per day without students for planning time. Currently, middle / high school teachers have students an average of five hours and forty‐three minutes (5:43) per day, and elementary teachers have students an average of five hours and twenty‐five minutes (5:25) per day. The early retirement incentive expired in the previous contract. Professional employees who receive a request from the District to work beyond the normal work day shall be compensated at a rate of $25 per hour. The previous rate was $22 per hour. They may be required to participate in a maximum of four (4) evening meetings without additional pay. Previously three (3) evening meetings may be required. Employees will be given not less than ten (10) workdays notice. Previous notice was not less than thirty (30) days. Other contractual language such as “but not limited to” and “illness only” were added. The district proposed to remove language from the Collective Bargaining Agreement that references the Extracurricular Salary Schedule. It would be dealt with outside of the contract. Professional Employees are paid based on a salary matrix with 17 steps. The steps represent years of teaching experience. A first year teacher begins on step one (1) and shall increase one (1) step per year until they reach step seventeen (17), which is the maximum step in the matrix. $32,838 is step one (1) on the salary matrix for a first year teacher with a Bachelor’s Degree. $59,557 is step seventeen (17) on the salary matrix for anyone with at least seventeen (17) years of teaching experience and a Bachelor’s Degree. Even if the salary matrix is frozen each year, the average step movement raise for anyone not on step seventeen (17) is $1,670.