Teachers and other employees in the Menlo Park City School District took home larger paychecks last month after contract negotiations ended on a positive note with at least a 3 percent increase for all employees.
The 3 percent increase to the teachers’ salary schedule could go higher, according to a provision built into the contract, if the district receives more property tax revenue for 2005-06 than projected.
Classified employees — school secretaries, aides, maintenance workers and other non-teaching personnel — received a 3.2 percent salary increase.
The district also will increase its contribution to employee health and welfare benefits by $35.74 per month per full-time employee, retroactive to the December payroll.
The total cost of the salary and benefit increases is $550,000 for all employees, said Diane White, the district’s chief business official.
Negotiations that started last December with employee groups were ratified by trustees in April after bargaining teams worked long and hard to reach agreement.
The bargaining teams will go back to the table soon because the entire teachers’ contract is up for negotiations for the 2006-07 year.
Trustee Carol Orton applauded the negotiating teams for doing “a great job of communicating and listening” and reaching agreement.
