Subcommittee members press district for $600,000 to change base health plan, seek 0.9% added to salary base

Summary

At a district budget subcommittee meeting, participants representing staff and teachers reiterated two main asks: make PPO 8 the default health plan by finding roughly $600,000 and add about 0.9 percentage points to the salary base to better match inflation, while acknowledging district budget constraints.

Members of the Roaring Fork School District No. Re-1 budget subcommittee outlined two specific compensation requests during a meeting focused on next year’s budget: find about $600,000 to make PPO 8 the district’s base health-insurance option and identify funding to add roughly 0.9 percentage points to the salary schedule base on top of planned step increases.

The requests came during a discussion about bargaining priorities and budget trade-offs. “One of our priorities moving forward is finding an extra $600,000 for that PPO payment to make that other base plan,” said Speaker 2 (committee member). Speaker 2 also asked the group to investigate how much money a 0.9% base increase would cost and to explore options for funding it.

The request for PPO 8 was framed as a change to the district’s default health…

Subcommittee members press district for $600,000 to change base health plan, seek 0.9% added to salary base

Summary

Subscribe to keep reading