District proposes salary freeze for teachers

The Fairfield Community School District is proposing teachers? salaries be frozen at the current levels for the 2010-2011 school year.

The district?s contract negotiations team presented the proposal for the 2010-2011 teachers? master contract to the Fairfield Community Education Association negotiations team during a meeting Friday afternoon at the Administration/Curriculum/Technology Center.

School board and negotiation team member Doug Flournoy read the district?s proposal aloud. He said the board is asking to freeze salaries at current levels, without step movements.

?The legislated IPERS increase of 0.3 percent, plus a health insurance increase of 11.5 percent cause the total package cost of this proposal to be $178,179,? read Flournoy. ?This is an increase of 2.07 percent.?

?We recognize that $59,234 of this amount was not received by the teachers in fiscal year 2010 because of the state of Iowa across-the-board cut of 10 percent,? he continued reading. ?However, full funding of the fiscal year 2011 budget is expected at this time.?

The district is proposing using the current contract, but with some changes.

For the complete article, see the Monday, March 15, 2010, printed edition of The Fairfield Ledger.