{"id":48079,"date":"2019-05-17T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/live-school-board-calls-special-bargaining-meeting\/"},"modified":"2019-05-17T16:52:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T00:52:39","slug":"live-school-board-calls-special-bargaining-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/live-school-board-calls-special-bargaining-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"One down, one to go: School hammers out agreement with teachers union"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Cairns entered the meeting room in Juneau School District Office to mild applause.<\/p>\n

The Juneau Education Support Staff president was making his entrance Friday afternoon on the heels of Juneau School District Board of Education’s unanimous decision to approve a three-year agreement with JESS, the district’s second biggest bargaining unit.<\/p>\n

“We don’t have to do this for three years,” Cairns said to good-natured laughs. “Thank you all very much. I think we have established a really good working relationship for the next three years.”<\/p>\n

After the meeting, Cairns said he thought the school board was still in executive session, hence an almost-tardy arrival.<\/p>\n

The terms of the agreement include a raise of 60 cents per hour per cell — a step on the district’s salary schedule — for fiscal year 2020, a 1 percent raise for the next year, and a 20 cent per cell plus 1 percent increase for fiscal year 2022. Increases in monthly health insurance contributions are $25, according to the tentative agreement.<\/p>\n

[This bill would treat abortion the same as murder<\/a>]<\/ins><\/p>\n

The agreement goes into effect July 1 and ends June 30, 2022, and the net cost to the District per year is estimated to be $539,000 in the first year, $687,000 in the second, and $1,160,000 in the final year.<\/p>\n

Still being hammered out<\/strong><\/p>\n

During the same special meeting, the school board voted to unanimously postpone giving first reading to a tentative agreement with Juneau Education Association.<\/p>\n

Board members said by delaying the reading, it would give a chance for members of the educator union to read the terms of the agreement and possibly vote to ratify the agreement.<\/p>\n

The meeting, which concluded just before 3 p.m. during a school day, was not attended by a teacher, and JEA President Laura Mulgrew did not immediately return a call seeking comment.<\/p>\n

The decision to postpone the first reading means at least two more meetings will be required for an agreement to be official.<\/p>\n

[What do salmon mean to you<\/a>]<\/ins><\/p>\n

The terms of the tentative agreement were included in the meeting packet, and the agreement calls for a 1-percent raise in fiscal year 2020, a .5-percent raise the next year, and a .5 percent raise the year after that. It would also be effective July 1 through June 30, 2022.<\/p>\n

The agreement also adds a teacher workday to the calender starting in fiscal year 2021 and an additional student day in fiscal year 2022.<\/p>\n

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\u2022 Contact reporter Ben Hohenstatt at (907)523-2243 or bhohenstatt@juneauempire.com. Follow him on Twitter at @BenHohenstatt.<\/b><\/p>\n

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