Negotiations+Team

=__NEGOTIATIONS PROCEDURE__=


 * 17.1 Not later than the School Board's first regularly scheduled meeting in March of the year in which this Agreement expires, the Association and the Districts shall exchange their initial proposals for bargaining. Any Agreement reached between the parties shall be reduced to writing and signed by them.

17.2 Proposed school calendars shall be presented to the Association by January 15 of each year. The calendar proposals must include five (5) minimum student days during the week following the end of the first quarter. These days are designated for mandatory parent conferences with all students in grades 1 through 6. Negotiations on the proposed calendar would commence on or before February 15, with a resolution by March 15. This time frame allows input into the school calendar and allows the Board to adopt the succeeding year calendar at a Board meeting in March of each year.

17.3 Negotiations shall take place at mutually agreeable times and places once the public notice provisions of the "Act" have been met.

17.4 The exclusive representative shall designate a reasonable number of representatives who shall each be entitled to a reasonable amount of release time without loss of compensation to attend negotiations and impasse proceedings.

17.5 The Board will make available or provide access to non-confidential public information that would be of value to the Association in its role as exclusive bargaining representative.

17.6 Not later than November 1st, the Board shall furnish the Association with the placement of all bargaining unit members on the salary schedules as of October 1st.**