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Board approves confidential employee contracts and endorses salary adjustments, authorizes one-time payments
Summary
The board approved contracts for confidential employees, a multi-part salary study outcome affecting several classified positions with a July 1 effective date and one-time payments approximating retroactive pay; members discussed retention incentives for a chief business officer amid difficulty recruiting for the role.
The board approved confidential employee contracts and a staff-recommended package of salary adjustments for selected classified office positions, with changes to take effect July 1 and one-time payments to approximate retroactive pay for work performed earlier in the year.
Staff described confidential employees as nonbargaining staff who support labor negotiations and listed affected positions on campus: three HR analysts, one payroll specialist, the business manager and an executive assistant. The contracts are tied to a previously approved confidential salary schedule; staff said the hourly confidential employees mirror CEU contract provisions and exemplars mirror the teachers’ contract for single managers.
Separately, the board reviewed findings from a salary-study committee that examined job descriptions for classified employees working in office roles. Staff said the committee revised 10 job descriptions and proposed salary adjustments based on changes in duties; the adjustments were negotiated with CEU and the recommended changes were presented for board approval. To avoid retroactive salary processing, staff proposed one-time payments to approximate the difference between January 1 and the July 1 effective date; the board approved implementation of the changes and one-time payments for those categories.
Board members discussed retention of the chief business officer, identified in the meeting as Christine, and the difficulty of recruiting and retaining strong candidates for chief business officer positions. Members referenced a proposed one-time retention bonus in the range discussed during the meeting (about 4–6 percent of pay), noting such a payment would be separate from base salary. The board vote on the confidential employee contracts and the salary adjustments passed by recorded vote (seven yes, zero no among members present). Staff said the contracts expire at month end and that the standard term under discussion would be three years for executive contracts.
The board directed staff to finalize contract documents as posted in the materials and to process the July 1 salary adjustments and one-time payments in accordance with the negotiated agreement with CEU.
