[SchoolFinance] Draft budget during negotiations

[Shelley Cummings]

Like most of the answers here, we budget the step increases because by law
we have to implement them regardless of whether the contract is fully
negotiated or not and then we put an amount in contingency that we feel is
sufficient to cover any percentage increases. Clearly, that is a shot in
the dark, depending on how far along the process goes.

On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 10:53 AM Adam Hanson <
ahanson at lewistonpublicschools.org> wrote:

> Our recent practice has been to give everyone a step on the current scale
> and then decide how much more we want as a contingency in total. We then
> spread that contingency amount across all of the different appropriate
> salary lines so it doesn't stand out like a sore thumb.
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM Daniel Picard <daniel at fayettemecs.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Question for any input you have: When you are in a negotiation year, how
>> do you handle this in your draft budgets without showing too much
>> information? (Particularly where you have not negotiated any salaries yet).
>>
>> Thank you!
>> Daniel
>>
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