LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Some Lee County School District employees will see a pay raise after the school board approved next year’s collective bargaining agreement.<\/p>\n
The contract covers support staff, including custodians, cafeteria workers, bus attendants, clerical staff and maintenance workers. The agreement includes an average pay raise of 4.2%.<\/p>\n
For employees whose raise would total less than $750, the district will instead guarantee a minimum increase of $750. Employees below their target salary will jump 30% closer to that salary.<\/p>\n
Employees above their target salary will get a one-time bonus of $750. As part of the agreement, the district is eliminating 10 positions, including some clerk typist and cafeteria attendant jobs.<\/p>\n
However, officials say they hope to place those employees in other positions within the district. This deal comes at a difficult time for Lee County Schools.<\/p>\n
The district is trying to close a $46 million budget gap and has already announced plans to non-renew 457 employees, including 257 teachers. Parents have raised concerns about what fewer employees could mean for classrooms, programs and student support services moving forward.<\/p>\n
While the district continues to make tough decisions to balance its budget, the agreement represents a bright spot for some of its employees.<\/p>\n
The pay increase takes effect July 1, and any eligible one-time bonuses are expected to be paid out at the end of August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Some Lee County School District employees will see a pay raise after the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3837,325,115],"class_list":["post-302556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-collaborator_gen_stories","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}