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Teacher urges board to explain delayed CBA draft and who will cover retyping costs
Summary
An Auburn Union ELD teacher and AUTA negotiation chair told trustees the district lost a previous collective bargaining agreement (CBA) file, delaying issuance of the updated draft and forcing teachers to spend classroom time proofreading a retyped 100+ page document. She questioned who bears the cost of substitutes and outside legal work.
Sarah Hedspeth, an English‑language development teacher at Auburn Union and the union's negotiations chair, told the board during public comment that the district delayed providing a draft of the updated collective bargaining agreement and that "3 weeks later, we were notified that the previous CBA doc had been lost." She said the district only gave union members access to the new draft a month after they expected it, forcing teachers to spend additional time reviewing and approving a 100‑plus page document.
Hedspeth described the practical cost of that delay: teachers will need substitutes while they proof the document, substitutes are in short supply, and the district is paying extra legal services for a task she suggested could be performed by existing staff. "At whose expense is this 100 plus page document being rewritten?" she asked the board, urging the district to use in‑house resources where possible. The comment did not include a formal request for board action, but it asked trustees to clarify next steps and who will cover associated costs.
