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Board tables negotiated agreement after dispute over certified salary schedule and IBB process
Summary
Trustees spent extensive time debating whether the board improperly separated the certified salary schedule from the negotiated agreement approved by the LEA. A motion to ratify the June 11 negotiated agreement failed; the board voted to table the item pending guidance from legal counsel and asked counsel to respond by the board’s August meeting.
The Lakeland District Board of Trustees spent the bulk of the meeting addressing a dispute over the district’s negotiated agreement and a certified salary schedule approved at the June 11 meeting. Trustees and the LEA argued over procedure and whether separating the certified salary schedule from the negotiated agreement violated negotiation law or district procedure.
Board Chair Chairman Thompson said the board had not seen the negotiated agreement before it was presented for ratification to teachers, telling the meeting, “This board never saw the negotiated agreement that was going to go to the teachers until it was ratified.” Trustees said they had intended only clerical or contextual changes after June 11 but that content changes—particularly the removal or relocation of stipend and extracurricular items—had been made and, according to legal advice shared with the board, the salary schedule should not have…
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