ANAHEIM : Schools, Non-Teachers Agree on Contract

A contract between the Anaheim City School District and its 780 non-teaching employees has won unanimous approval by the district’s trustees.

The pact for the 1995-96 school year gives the employees a 2.5% pay raise and increased dental benefits.

Management employees received the same pay increase and a dental insurance package.

“I thought it was a very fair agreement--equitable with supervision,” said John Dawson, president of the California School Employees Assn., Chapter 54.

The association represents secretaries, bus drivers, gardeners, maintenance workers, instructional aides and other non-teaching employees.

Dawson said 90% of the association members voted in favor of the new pact.

School board president Christopher B. Whorton called the contract, approved Tuesday, “a good agreement” that “treats our people fairly.”

“The salary scale is near the top in the county,” Whorton said, which allows the district to “attract and keep good people.”

Now that the district has reached agreements with its classified and management employees, school officials will focus their attention on obtaining a teachers contract for the current academic year.

Negotiations with the district’s 750 teachers are at an impasse.

In early December, representatives of the teachers union and district management are to begin talks with a state mediator.