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Baltimore County board asks staff to cost one‑time retroactive payments after delay to negotiated raises
Summary
Facing state and local funding shortfalls, the Board of Education of Baltimore County voted to ask the superintendent to cost out and plan for one‑time retroactive payments to employees in FY27 and FY28 to make staff "whole" for delayed raises; the request is contingent on future funding.
The Board of Education of Baltimore County on June 10 directed Superintendent Miriam Rogers to cost and consider including one‑time retroactive payments to school system employees in the FY 2027 and FY 2028 proposed budgets after the district delayed negotiated raises previously scheduled to start July 1, 2025.
Board member Nadine Hem moved the request, which the board amended and approved in a roll‑call vote. The final motion asks the superintendent to prioritize funding in the next two operating budgets for one‑time payments that, if fully funded, would be issued Dec. 1, 2026 (retroactive to FY26) and Dec. 1, 2027 (retroactive to FY27) and would equal the difference between the negotiated salary schedules and the actual pay realized by employees for those fiscal years.
The motion does not appropriate funds; it asks staff to cost out options and to include the request for consideration in the FY27 and FY28 budget submissions. The board…
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