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District staff says tentative agreement reached with LCTA: 3.037% pay increase and trial MOUs for buyback, childcare and parental leave
Summary
Administration reported a tentative bargaining agreement with the Leon County Teachers Association that includes a 3.037% across-the-board increase (for employees with more than one year), a $500,000 sick-leave buyback pilot, trial employee childcare coverage and a one-year parental-leave pilot.
District labor negotiator Brett Shively updated the board on bargaining outcomes the administration reached with the Leon County Teachers Association.
The update matters because it outlines compensation and benefits changes that affect teachers and other employees and will feed into payroll and budget scheduling if ratified.
“As you guys have heard last, last board meeting, we had, right before we met, we essentially had, come to an agreement with the LCTA regarding, this year's bargaining,” Brett Shively told the board.
Shively said the package includes a 3.037 percent increase “across the board for teachers who have been employed with us for more than a year.” He described a change to the salary schedule that increases step differentials (from $100 between steps in prior schedule to larger increments in some ranges). He added the administration agreed to a trial sick-leave buyback program totaling $500,000 to be available in fiscal years 2024–25 and 2025–26, with parameters to limit participation while the district gauges cost and uptake.
Shively also described a one-year trial for employee before- and after-school childcare that would be provided free to participating employees (the district would pay the provider on the employee’s behalf) and a trial parental-leave MOU offering up to five days of paid parental leave as a pilot for 2025–26. He said language changes were negotiated in multiple contract articles and that the negotiated package would be compiled and delivered to the board for signature; Shively expected the updated contract package to be available the day after the meeting.
The item was presented as an administrative update. Shively described the agreement reached before the meeting and said the formal package — including a clean and track-changes version for signatures — would be prepared for ratification. The board did not record a formal ratification vote during the meeting.
Board members asked clarifying questions about timing, retroactive pay (Shively said payments would be paid in March with retroactive pay to the beginning of the school year and the remainder distributed over subsequent paychecks), and how leave- and childcare pilots would be administered. Shively said employees on leave who return would receive their increases when they resume payroll.
