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Classified Employee Legislative Issues

This conference presentation discusses the need to increase state funding for classified employee services in order to address issues related to compensation and staffing. It also explores the impact of rising insurance premiums on the ability of classified employees to afford quality health insurance.

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Classified Employee Legislative Issues

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  1. Classified Employee Legislative Issues ERNN conference presentation February 28, 2015

  2. Increase state funding for classified employee services • Compensation • Staffing

  3. Market based compensation • HB 2261 • “…the technical working group shall conduct or contract for a preliminary comparative labor market analysis of salaries and other compensation for school district employees to be conducted and shall include the results in any reports to the legislature. • QEC received workgroup report in 2012

  4. Classified salary recommendation

  5. Cost of salary recommendation • $277 million (2014 estimate) • 2014 - House appropriations committee passed HB 2792 to fully fund • 2013 – House passed budget funded 50% of the increase

  6. Staffing adequacy recommendations HB 2776: “(b) Recommendations for assuring adequate levels of state-funded classified staff to support essential school and district services.”

  7. Staffing adequacy report • Workgroups developed classification recommendations • “The QEC provisionally adopts the recommendations of the Classified Staffing Adequacy Working Group for essential staffing levels” - QEC 2011 Report to the Legislature • Placed into Initiative 1351 (with small changes)

  8. Paraeducators • Elementary School – 400 students • 1.164 FTE increase • Middle School – 432 students • .3 FTE Increase • High School – 600 students • .35 FTE Increase

  9. Secretaries • Elementary School – 400 students • 1 FTE increase • Middle School – 432 students • 1.2 FTE Increase • High School – 600 students • .25 FTE Increase

  10. Custodians • Elementary School – 400 students • .04 FTE increase • Middle School – 432 students • .05 FTE Increase • High School – 600 students • .03 FTE Increase

  11. Student safety • Elementary School – 400 students • .08 FTE decrease • Middle School – 432 students • .61 FTE Increase • High School – 600 students • 1.16 FTE Increase

  12. Parent involvement coordinator • Elementary School – 400 students • 1 FTE increase • Middle School – 432 students • 1 FTE Increase • High School – 600 students • 1 FTE Increase

  13. Technology • For every 1,000 students • 2.2 FTE Increase

  14. Facilities, Maintenance, Grounds • For every 1,000 students • 2.2 FTE Increase

  15. Warehouse, Laborers, Mechanics • For every 1,000 students • 1.6 FTE Increase

  16. Teaching Assistants (Elementary / Middle / High) 94,913,779 Office Support (Elementary / Middle / High) 103,741,723 Custodians (Elementary / Middle / High) 5,346,783 Student Safety (Elementary / Middle / High) 38,483,136 Parent Involvement Coordinators (E / M /H) 111,130,003 Districtwide Technology Staff 119,730,144 Districtwide Facilities, Maintenance, Grounds Staff 120,560,606 Districtwide Warehouse Staff, Laborers, Mechanics 86,432,305 Total 680,338,479 Increased state cost - $680 Million

  17. Affordable, quality health insurance for all school employees rising insurance premiums, education “bias” against family/dependent coverage, part-time funding inequality have significant impact on classified employees ability to pay for insurance

  18. 1. Premium increases (inflation funding)2. Half-time funding3. Health insurance reform to eliminate education “bias”

  19. Insurance Premium Increases • 2013-14 School Year • WEA/Premera rates up 17% • WEA/Premera has 60% of K 12 covered lives • 2014-15 School Year • WEA/Premera rates up 8% • Next two years??? – 6% to 8%

  20. Insurance premium funding • Last funding was September 2010 • 2010-2011 $768.00 3.09% • 2011-2012 $768.00 0.00% • 2012-2013 $768.00 0.00% • 2013-2014 $768.00 0.00% • 2014-2015 $768.00 0.00% • 2015-16 & 2016-17 Inflation Funding • Governor Inslee Budget – 0%

  21. Half-time or more funding

  22. Bureau of labor statistics - single National Part time definition - Less than 35 hours per week PEBB Part time definition - More than 20 hours per week less than 40 hours per week

  23. Bureau of labor statistics

  24. Health insurance reform • SB 5976 • Consolidation effective January 1, 2017 • SEBB (school employee benefits board) • begins September 1, 2015 • develops plans and premium structure • Coalition bargaining at State level (same as state employees) • No local bargaining for basic benefit plans or payments • Pooling eliminated • Single to family ratio – 1:2.5

  25. Cost of living adjustments (salary increase) Initiative 732 required them for the last 6 years

  26. Initiative 732 COLA – Seattle CPI • School Year State Funded Seattle CPI • 2009-10 0.0% 4.2% • 2010-11 0.0% 0.6% • 2011-12 -1.9% 0.3% • 2012-13 0.0% 2.7% • 2013-14 1.9% 2.5% • 2014-15 0.0% 1.3% • 2015-16 1.8%* • 2016-17 1.3%* • *current estimate

  27. Governor Inslee Proposed Salary Increase • Salary Increase - $386 million • 3.0% 9-1-15 • 1.8% 9-1-16

  28. Paraeducator development program • SB 6129 – passed in 2014 legislative session • Workgroup to make recommendations • Report to legislature by January 10, 2015 • Report on special education and general education paraeducators to legislature by January 2016

  29. Opportunity Gap Students • 108,000 Ell / TBIP Eligible Students - $218 million • 476,000 LAP Eligible Students - $438 million

  30. SB 5179 - Implement Paraeducator recommendations • Impacts paraeducators in ELL & LAP • Minimum employment standard – meet NCLBA standard • Must become a certificated paraeducator • 2 school years to test certification process • Starting 9-1-17: 3 years to become certificated • Starting 9-1-17: Those who work in ELL positions must earn an ELL endorsement in 3 years • Establish a paraeducator board to implement program • Career ladder - Advanced paraeducator position • Community and technical college programs updated • Teachers and principals trained how to effectively manage a paraeducator

  31. Miscellaneous legislation

  32. Implement Initiative 1351 • School support personnel are the most significant beneficiaries • Not enough space, must hire “school-based personnel” • New formulas provide funding for 18,000 FTE (21,000) classified employees • Work with the legislature to implement • Support spreading out implementation over longer period (more than 4 years)

  33. Anti-union legislation – there have been many… • SB 5045 – setting up procedures for stopping dues payments • SB 5226 – union finances made public • SB 5237 – more days to decertify union • SB 5329 – open negotiations to public • SB 5602 – no release time for union representatives • SB 5854 – unions send digital collective bargaining agreement to PERC

  34. BAB & Child Nutrition Equipment Grants • HB 1164 – Grants for new equipment if programs are committed to enhance nutrition and access to healthier foods • HB 1295 & SB 5437 – Breakfast after the Bell (BAB) requirement in schools with high poverty (70%)

  35. $12 Minimum Wage • HB 1355 – Implement over 4 year period • $10.00 on January 1, 2016 • $10.50 on January 1, 2017 • $11.00 on January 1, 2018 • $12.00 on January 1, 2019 • 2012-13 school year • $986,000 • 2,274 positions • 555 FTEs

  36. 2/3 Funding to Education • SB 5063 – 2/3 of new State revenue going to education • Early education • K 12 • Higher education

  37. PSE ideas for funding education • Property tax swap • Raise State Property Tax to the Maximum Allowed - $3.60 per thousand • Calendar Year 2014 is $2.30 per thousand • Allows school districts to reduce local levy reliance • Increase percentage of new revenue for education funding – SB 5063 • Extend full implementation year of McCleary funding • Current full funding year is the 2017-2018 School Year • Extend full implementation year of Initiative 1351 • Current full funding year is the 2018-2019 school year

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