Prior to the snow days last week your bargaining team met with the District for a facilitated “consensus lab”. The goal of the meeting was to approve consensus agreements from the joint interest-based bargaining subcommittees to bring to the membership and the school board for ratification. Other issues still remain in progress and were not part of this consensus lab. Those unsettled issues include but are not limited to salary, insurance, retirement, workday and workload. We will continue to bargain over those issues in the next stage of bargaining beginning in January.

We reached consensus on a packet of tentative agreements that we will forward to you after the winter break for ratification. We are asking that each building send at least one representative to a bargaining information meeting on January 11th at 4:30 pm at PAT. At that meeting we will go over the tentative agreements and answer questions. We also expect to send out a summary of the agreements and post the actual contract language for each agreement prior to that meeting.

Here is a list of the topics in the consensus packet: