Board schedules March workshop to review negotiated agreement and explore returning to multi-column salary schedule

Board members and staff discussed the district’s negotiated agreement (the contract between the board and the LEA) and the related certified salary schedule. Trustees said the current single-column certified salary schedule may not be fiscally sustainable and asked HR and the district CFO to draft a multi-column 'lanes and cells' layout for review. The board scheduled a workshop on March 4 to review the negotiated-agreement draft and to allow staff time to prepare financial modeling.

Trustees debated process and timing. One trustee suggested the board hold a workshop to ensure the content was acceptable before presenting it to the LEA and starting formal negotiations; others reminded the group that statute requires the LEA request negotiations before the board can formally engage. Board staff agreed to circulate a draft negotiated agreement and to present a salary-schedule layout (without final dollar values, pending CFO calculations) at the March 4 workshop.

No final contract changes were approved at the meeting; the board set the workshop date and directed staff to prepare comparative salary-schedule examples and necessary financial analysis for workshop consideration.