Report from Negotiations: May 7, 2025

1. Non contract/TA related:  Many MOUs agreed too.  A full list will be posted on our webpage when they go to the board.  Here are some highlights:

•  Collaboration Time at Elementary

  • 3 weeks of  minimum days to start the school year.  Grades 1 & 2 have expanded 1-1 assessments, K will have a “soft start”

  • K will have an additional full week in October for their 1-1 required assessments

• Collaboration TK and TK/K Combo

  • PIlot:  TK AM/PM will shift start/end times which changes the “15 minutes before or after” contract language in exchange for agreeing to 15 minutes before and after they will get 15 additional minutes added to their lunches next year.  This pilot will be reviewed next year for effectiveness.

• Mandatory Trainings :This was a new MOU introduced by us to address the increasing time needed to complete state mandated online trainings.  After spirited discussion it was put on hold but expect a joint communication soon that states our verbal agreement for next year.  Principals will  report after October on how their sites provided time and the results will be brought to the table next year.  

  • Verbal agreement in brief:  Each site will find 2 hours from Aug or Oct PD, Staff or other Thursday meetings between the start of school and due date in October to allow staff to work on state mandated online trainings.  That time should occur in no less than 30 minute chunks.

2.  FCEA’s Counter to FCUSD’s last proposal:

Since we last met there have been changes that affect our budget: (1) while still growing in students, the growth has slowed and affects budgeting projections over the required three year span, (2) our ADA has ticked down which when combined with fewer student than projected significantly lowers LCFF expectations for next year, and (3) The Governor’s May Revise is out soon and it is anticipated that COLA which was 2.43% is going down to 2.3%.  Below is a summary of FCEA’s counter.  Note the addition of non-monetary items based on all the feedback we’ve received about district initiatives and how they impact our jobs.  We are not opposed to these ideas, but we do expect to be treated as full-members of the conversation and to have input as to how decisions made affect our students as well as our daily jobs.  Here is the more detailed ppt.  If you want to reach out to board members or district leadership with your own stories, particularly on the non-monetary items, they do read emails - in the case of the board members they’ve cited info from those emails at the end of board meetings.

Summary:  

• (Monetary) One year agreement for 2025-26

  • Compensation

    • 2% ongoing for 2025-26, including all of appendix D

    • One time stipend of $600 for all bargaining unit members

  • Accept district’s formula for one time benefits payment for 2025-26 based on half of the difference between WHA Nonstop renewal and district cap [Nonstop “stipend” 1/2(WHA - district contribution)x10: (E) $300; (E+1) $2524.5; (fam) $2806.55]

• Extend for planning purposes the 185 day work year to 2026-27 (adds approx .5% to pay for the additional day in 2026-27.  185 days already in place for 2025-26.

• Start to repair and rebuild relationships with our members (new non-monetary)

  • Within the absence management system all sick leave is coded personal necessity

  • Reconstitute the district’s Budget Advisory Committee to provide

    • Oversight of grants pertinent to our bargaining unit to be sure priorities are communicated and student metrics of success are identified

    • Begin a thorough review of all departments at ESC as well as district programs to look at cost, goals, and measurable impact on student learninging