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The Pleasanton Unified School District will be presenting its initial proposals for the 2023-2024 collective bargaining agreement with the Association of Pleasanton Teachers during Thursday’s Board of Trustees meeting.
Back in May, the district approved a new collective bargaining agreement between the district and the teachers association that included a 3.25% salary increase and new health benefits.
The tentative agreement covers the next three academic years, with a one-year settlement for the 2022-23 portion of the agreement and health benefits for employees in line with CalPERS health benefits — a maximum of $5,000 including all CalPERS-required contributions.
But every year, each side of the negotiation teams gets the opportunity to reopen articles in the contract to renegotiate things like salary, the work calendar and benefits.
According to the district staff report, the clauses that the district will be sunshining — which is another way of saying reopening — are concerning health and welfare benefits, salaries and the work calendar.
In a separate agenda item, the board will also be looking to vote on approving a memorandum of understanding regarding calculating time off for personal or medical reasons.
The memorandum, which negotiations parties signed in December, states that an eight-hour day would be used when calculating leaves, which includes the time that teachers work outside of school hours.
Apart from time off, last October the teachers association had also sunshined the article in the contract regarding class sizes and caseloads for negotiations during the 2023-24 school year, but there was no mention of those requests in Thursday’s staff report.
If both items are approved, then full negotiations will be scheduled to start after the meeting.
The board’s open-session meeting is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. Thursday (Jan. 19). Read the full agenda here.
In other business:
* The district negotiations team will also be sunshining initial proposals for 2023-26 collective bargaining Agreement with the California School Employees Association (CSEA) Chapter No. 155.
The chapter, which represents classified employees within the district, will also be presenting its proposals for the agreement so that formal negotiations for the 2023-2024 school year can begin.
Some of the articles that the CSEA chapter will be discussing are regarding: time off; health and welfare benefits; wages; layoffs and re-employment.
* As part of their consent calendar, which are items that are routine in nature and are usually approved without discussion, the board will be voting on approving a service agreement to develop an implementation plan for Measure I bond projects.
The $395 million general obligation bond, which Pleasanton voters passed in November, will utilize a tax rate of $49 per $100,000 of assessed value for Pleasanton property owners to fund the first tier round of school facility upgrades listed in the district’s Facilities Master Plan.
Now that the bond has been passed, district staff will be looking to award Van Pelt Construction Services (VPSC) with a $10,000 service agreement to create a detailed implementation plan that will help ensure PUSD delivers the promises listed in the bond.
The board had previously approved a short-term agreement with Van Pelt in 2019 to support ongoing work for the $270 million Measure I1 general obligation bond for facility upgrades.
Because of that history and following further interviews with the company and three others, district staff concluded that Van Pelt was best suited for the job based on their, “qualifications, experience, proposed personnel and proposed fee.”
“With VPSC’s knowledge of the current Measure I1 bond program combined with their proposed added personnel for these short term pre-bond services, they demonstrated they can quickly start assessing the needs of the Measure I1 and the recently passed Measure I bonds,” according to the staff report.
The three to four month scope of work listed in the service agreement includes: cost estimate verification of the Facility Master Plan; budget development and creating a spending plan, cash flow planning; and developing an initial planning, design and construction schedule.
“During the process of gathering data and validating project scopes and cost estimates, a Draft Implementation Plan will be prepared, which will go through a process of reviews and updates,” according to the staff report. “This process will include meetings with the district, site groups, the board facilities committee and will conclude once it has been reviewed and approved by the board of education.”
* The board will also be receiving a report from the Human Resources department where staff will go over how the department is addressing the current hiring challenges in education today.
“The division strives to demonstrate how Pleasanton is a destination school district focused on investing in our current employees and attracting the best teachers to support our students,” the staff report reads.
In order to bolster recruitment efforts, the department completed an analysis of certificated staff compensation in PUSD and comparable school districts in order to highlight the district’s amenities.
Human resources has also implemented recruitment and retention strategies to maximize the value of their efforts and to “ensure the growth and stability of our employees, with the goal of greater student success.”
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