6% Raise OKd for Nonteaching Unit
About 700 custodians, secretaries, gardeners and other nonteaching personnel of the Conejo Valley Unified School District have received a 6% raise and a one-time 2% benefits refund retroactive to January.
The board unanimously approved the package at its meeting Tuesday. The raise will cost the district about $358,000 through the end of the school year, according to Regina Ward, the district’s director of fiscal services.
The settlement pleased the president of the California School Employees Assn. “To get a 6% raise is excellent,” said Dorene Starita. “I can’t believe anybody would be unhappy with that kind of money.”
Teachers were awarded the same pay package in January, at a total cost of $2.5 million to the district for the 1997-98 school year, Ward said.
Last school year, both union groups received a 4.2% raise and the same rebate of part of their health-insurance premiums equal to 2% of their salary.
Teachers will begin negotiating a new three-year contract as early as this spring. The nonteaching union’s three-year pact expires Dec. 31, 1999.
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