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District weighs stipend, 4% raise or no action to address pay confusion for daily-rate support staff
Summary
District staff reported a 33% increase in some daily rates and said 131 full-time adult support positions and 26 HRAs are employed; the board asked staff to return two or three costed courses of action, including a targeted stipend or a 4% increase, to resolve communication-related expectations.
Speaker 2, a staff member, told the board the information requested concerned daily rates for HRAs and similar daily-rate support positions and that one recently implemented change represented "a 33% increase in their daily rate." Speaker 2 said the district has added positions and adjusted pay to align with other workers being paid $15 an hour.
The presentation included staffing counts: "I have a 131 full time adult support positions, 26 HRAs at this time," Speaker 2 said. Staff also described benefits eligibility, noting that adult support and health-care assistance positions are included in the retirement system after eight years and are eligible for health insurance and sick leave after specified service thresholds.
Board members and staff spent the bulk of the discussion on how prior communications created confusion about who would receive a 4% raise. Speaker 5 said district postings and meeting language led many daily-rate employees to expect the 4% increase: "...that created some confusion in what the expectation was versus the reality," they said. Speaker 4 described employees as feeling "deceived in thinking and believing certain things were going to happen."
Staff and members discussed alternatives to applying a blanket 4% increase now. Speaker 6 recommended addressing the misleading messaging and suggested a short-term stipend rather than immediately expanding the 4% increase to include daily-rate employees, with consideration of inclusion in the next budget cycle. Speaker 3 proposed that staff prepare two or three courses of action (COAs) with fiscal impact estimates — for example: do nothing; apply a 4% increase for the groups in question; or apply a targeted stipend or spike — and present those options in the board packet for a future vote.
"Provide you with 2 or 3 courses of action with a fiscal impact," Speaker 3 said. Staff agreed to work with finance and personnel to cost the COAs and deliver them in advance of the next meeting so the board could choose a path forward. The meeting record shows no formal vote on compensation at this session.
The next procedural step is for staff to return costed options in a board packet; the board will consider and vote on any recommended action at a subsequent meeting.
