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HUSW and district preview contract updates including bus-run bonus and Food Services TA
Summary
Union leaders and district negotiators reviewed a package of proposed contract changes for next year — including an extra bus run bonus, discussion about adding attendants to an attendance/safety bonus, switching job-posting windows to calendar days, and converting a Food and Nutrition MOU to a Tentative Agreement and salary schedule.
Union representatives and district labor officials met to review several proposed MOUs and contract language changes for the coming year, including a bonus for extra bus runs, scope for an attendance and safety bonus, changes to hiring-posting timelines, and conversion of a Food and Nutrition MOU into a Tentative Agreement (TA) with an accompanying salary schedule.
Matt Goldberg, director of labor relations and professional standards, opened the meeting and said the team had prepared copies of the agreements and intended to reuse previously negotiated language with updated years. He described two of the key items as an extra bus run bonus and a separate HVAC critical-shortage provision. "We have them set for '20 through '28," Goldberg said, presenting the package for review.
Union members pressed the district to make a drafting change to ensure the documents refer to a "bus run" rather than a "route," citing past confusion. Mandy Harmon, union secretary, asked that the term be precise so the bonus applies as intended.
Union leaders also asked that attendants required by students' Individualized Education Programs be included in the attendance and safety bonus, rather than limiting extra hourly pay to drivers. Joe Pacora (vice president, HUSW) described the attendant role and specialized training required for wheelchair students and asked the district to add attendants to its counterproposal. Goldberg said the district would accept a counterproposal and invited the union to return with suggested language.
On hiring postings, staff and union members agreed to change internal and external posting minimums from "business days" to "calendar days" so the language matches the district's electronic applicant system and practice. District staff explained internal applicants must be interviewed before external applicants and that the system allows weekend posting; participants resolved to update the posted language accordingly.
Food and Nutrition was discussed as a previously signed MOU that the district proposes converting to a TA and including on the salary schedule. Participants clarified that TA 1 relates to the Food and Nutrition Services Leadership Academy, TA 2 is the salary schedule tied to that program, and TA 3 concerns a posting/article correction. The group agreed to a small wording correction ("appendix 9" to "article 9") before finalizing paperwork.
No formal votes were taken. Goldberg said the district would prepare counters on outstanding items and bring language back for review and signature at a future meeting before the current agreement expires in June.
The parties scheduled follow-up work and agreed to reconvene to finalize counters and sign agreements.
