[SchoolFinance] Draft budget during negotiations

[Mandy Fitzgerald]

We do the same as Andrea and Samantha here @ RSU No 38. ~Mandy

On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM Garnett Sias, Samantha <
samantha.garnettsias at rsu4.org> wrote:

> We also use Profund and the same process Andrea outlined in her response.
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM Andrea Disch <adisch at msad11.org> wrote:
>
>> Tyler's Profund system utilizes position-based payroll, which we
>> incorporate into our budgeting process.
>>
>> In years when contract negotiations are ongoing, staff members are
>> advanced one step on the salary scale for budgeting purposes, and a
>> percentage increase is applied to the base salary scale.
>>
>> This percentage increase is calculated to account for all proposed
>> monetary negotiation requests.
>>
>>
>> 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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