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Teachers tell board district used TSS funds to cover most of agreed raise; board tables wage and administrator contracts
Summary
Teachers and union negotiators told the Council Bluffs school board the district reallocated teacher supplemental salary (TSS) funds to cover part of a negotiated 3% raise, a disclosure the union says came after the agreement; the board tabled wage and administrator contracts and moved to an exempt session.
Council Bluffs Community School District teachers and union negotiators told the board the district used teacher supplemental salary (TSS) funds to pay much of an agreed 3% base-salary increase without timely disclosure to the negotiations team, prompting board members to table votes on the wage increase and administrator contracts and to move to an exempt session to discuss employment terms.
At public comment, Sherry Anderson, a sixth-grade teacher and past president of the Council Bluffs Education Association (CBEA), said the district did not disclose how TSS funds would be allocated during bargaining and that the practice was not transparent. "We asked for TSS amounts," Anderson said. "We were not made aware of it... This is not transparent."
Bob Hanson, a long‑time math teacher and former negotiator, told the board the…
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