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Union offers 3% economic counter; district cites $1.16M constraint, parties record several tentative non-economic agreements
Summary
Citrus County Classroom Educators presented a bargaining counter calling for a 3% cost-of-living adjustment, a $443 TSIA payment retroactive to July 1, 2025 for eligible returning instructional staff, unit-specific step adjustments, and modest health-insurance board contributions. District officials said roughly $1.16 million had been described as
Representatives of the Citrus County Classroom Educators (CCA) and Citrus County School District continued contract bargaining in a meeting where the union presented an economic counterproposal and the district raised questions about available funds.
The union proposed a 3% cost-of-living adjustment across bargaining units and reiterated that returning instructional staff with at least two years of full-time Florida teaching experience should receive a $443 TSIA payment retroactive to July 1, 2025. Union negotiators said they presented supporting material — including a regional consumer-price-index graph from Florida Gulf Coast University’s Regional Economic Research Institute showing a year-over-year increase of about 3.3% — to justify seeking a percentage increase rather than only flat-dollar adjustments.
Why it matters: Union negotiators said the percentage approach would continue to “decompress” salary schedules by preserving pay separation based on years of experience; the district said revenue limits and categorical-fund restrictions constrain what can be applied to salaries.
Details of the union’s package described in the…
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