THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, April 23, 1995 TAG: 9504210191
SECTION: CHESAPEAKE CLIPPER PAGE: 10 EDITION: FINAL
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The Chesapeake School Board has set June 12 at 7 p.m. as a public hearing on proposed new salary scales for school employees.
The plan would compress all school employees, who had been on multiple salary scales, onto two career ladders: one for teachers and one for all other workers. Salaries would vary according to job descriptions.
The plan was compiled by Virginia Beach-based Municipal Advisors Inc., a consulting firm that conducted extensive interviews with school workers and surveyed other school systems and industries to see what they were paying employees.
For some jobs, the firm recommended that salaries be increased; for others, pay would decrease. No current employee, however, would receive a cut in pay. Workers making more than their recommended top salary would have their pay frozen until the pay scale catches up with them through cost of living increases.
Board members are scheduled to hold a second public hearing in September. The board's goal is to make a decision on the salary recommendations by October, in time to draft the following year's budget. by CNB