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Teams revise calendar-committee language and plan to include paid holidays in calendar process
Summary
Negotiators proposed moving paid-holiday language into the calendar-committee section, clarified online voting/tabulation by worksite and asked the district accountability office to provide raw tabulation reports, and considered how paid holidays (for support staff) align with calendar options such as the Friday after Thanksgiving.
Negotiators reviewed proposed calendar-committee language and discussed how paid holidays and school-calendar voting are organized and reported.
Key change proposed: negotiators recommended embedding paid-holiday designations for support personnel into the calendar-review process rather than leaving them in a separate “work year/work day” article. The facilitator explained this will allow the calendar committee to consider holidays as part of the calendar options it presents to staff.
Online voting and reporting: participants described the current online voting process, in which employees select their work location and preferred calendar option. The district’s assessment and accountability office tabulates results by worksite. Negotiators asked that the raw tabulation and associated feedback be provided to the association president or designee so the association can review the underlying data — one negotiator said the department “will report the results of the vote to the association president or his or her designee.”
Paid-holiday timing and examples: negotiators discussed a commonly used convention that the paid holiday tied to the Thanksgiving period is typically observed as the Friday following Thanksgiving in some calendars, and they asked staff to double-check district practice. One facilitator noted prior years when make-up days or weather impacts changed how Thanksgiving-time holidays were treated, reinforcing the need for the calendar committee to have final authority to set remaining holiday dates.
Process if board rejects calendar: language drafted for the calendar committee clarifies that if the school board rejects a proposed calendar, the committee will reconvene and act on specific board recommendations; the process then restarts. The teams agreed to remove outdated multi-step language that confused the current online voting process.
Status: negotiators agreed to strike two obsolete subsections that described an older paper-tabulation system and to add a clear line requiring the district office that collects votes to provide raw vote data and any explanatory feedback to the association for transparency. No formal board or calendar decisions were made at this session.
