Press release of January 27, 2010

BH-BL School Board Approves Contract with CSEA members

BURNT HILLS: The Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake Board of Education ratified negotiated agreements with the BH-BL Civil Service Employees Association at its January 26 meeting. CSEA members voted earlier to ratify the agreement.

The CSEA contract covers a four-year period from July 1, 2009 to June 30, 2013. It provides for salary schedule improvements of 2.0 percent each year.

Other changes in the contract include a number of instances where language was clarified to ensure that terms and standards could be applied uniformly across the district.

The CSEA agreement covers 267 full-time and part-time clerical, food service, teacher aide, teacher assistant, bus driver, bus mechanic, health, custodial and maintenance staff. Overall costs for the new agreement will increase by an average of 3.0 percent each year.

Noting the uncertainty of today’s economy, superintendent Jim Schultz called the agreement “a fair and reasonable compromise that will help the district plan and anticipate costs four years into the future while also helping supervisors apply standards uniformly on a daily basis.”

Negotiating on behalf of the school district were Robert Van Vranken, Jacqueline St. Onge, and Amy Baluch. Mike Campon, Janet Townsend, Marty Pangburn, Karen Neander, Shari August, Bob Killeen and Renee Aunchman negotiated on behalf of CSEA.

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