MONROE - Administrators in the Monroe School District will get a 2.06 percent raise for next year after the Monroe Board of Education unanimously approved the hike at a meeting Monday, July 22.
Exempt staff in the district are also receiving a 2.06 percent increase, including the food service director, buildings and grounds director, director of business services, the assistant to the curriculum director, district nurse and board secretary.
Monroe School District Business Manager Ron Olson said even with the salary increases, the district is still saving $90,000 next year because they cut the Monroe Middle School assistant principal position, hired Chris Medenwaldt as the new high school principal and Jeriamy Jackson as the new high school assistant principal.
"Administrative salaries decreased about 5.5 percent," Olson said, comparing them to 2012-13.
The administrative deals are two-year contracts and the exempt staff are one-year deals.
Administrative and exempt staff salaries will not be the only negotiations that are coming.
Teachers in Monroe have been under a two-year salary freeze, and their contract expired June 30. Negotiations with the Monroe Education Association on a new teacher contract are ongoing. The district is also negotiating a contract with the Monroe Association of Support Staff for next year. The district's Employee Relations Committee will meet with MASS Wednesday, July 24 and meet with the MEA Thursday, July 25.
The board approved a temporary 2013-14 budget in June with a projected $1.24 million deficit, and Olson said a salary increase for teachers had been factored into that figure.
Olson said the cap for a base wage increase for union teachers, based on the state's Consumer Price Index formula, is 2.07 percent.
"The base wage increase can't be more than 2.07 percent," he said. "There are other steps, experience and costs that could increase."
School districts across the state are prohibited from negotiating two-year contracts with teachers' unions like Monroe did in 2011.
"It will be a one-year contract," Olson said. "We will have to wait until the end of April or May every year to see what the state's CPI is."
Exempt staff in the district are also receiving a 2.06 percent increase, including the food service director, buildings and grounds director, director of business services, the assistant to the curriculum director, district nurse and board secretary.
Monroe School District Business Manager Ron Olson said even with the salary increases, the district is still saving $90,000 next year because they cut the Monroe Middle School assistant principal position, hired Chris Medenwaldt as the new high school principal and Jeriamy Jackson as the new high school assistant principal.
"Administrative salaries decreased about 5.5 percent," Olson said, comparing them to 2012-13.
The administrative deals are two-year contracts and the exempt staff are one-year deals.
Administrative and exempt staff salaries will not be the only negotiations that are coming.
Teachers in Monroe have been under a two-year salary freeze, and their contract expired June 30. Negotiations with the Monroe Education Association on a new teacher contract are ongoing. The district is also negotiating a contract with the Monroe Association of Support Staff for next year. The district's Employee Relations Committee will meet with MASS Wednesday, July 24 and meet with the MEA Thursday, July 25.
The board approved a temporary 2013-14 budget in June with a projected $1.24 million deficit, and Olson said a salary increase for teachers had been factored into that figure.
Olson said the cap for a base wage increase for union teachers, based on the state's Consumer Price Index formula, is 2.07 percent.
"The base wage increase can't be more than 2.07 percent," he said. "There are other steps, experience and costs that could increase."
School districts across the state are prohibited from negotiating two-year contracts with teachers' unions like Monroe did in 2011.
"It will be a one-year contract," Olson said. "We will have to wait until the end of April or May every year to see what the state's CPI is."