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Collective Bargaining Agreement Travis Unified School District and Travis Unified Teachers Association July 1, 2018 through June 30, 2021 TRAVIS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT GOVERNING BOARD Riitta DeAnda, Board President Ivery Hood, Vice President Russ Barrington, Clerk Janet Jackson Forbes, Member Adrian Saiz, Member Pam Conklin, Superintendent and Secretary to the Board TRAVIS UNIFIED TEACHERS’ ASSOCIATION (TUTA) BARGAINING TEAM Catherine Bowers Lila Korpell Mary King John Scholz Jodiann Johnson Jade Staples Mark Nowag, TUTA President Dawn Cova, CTA Representative TRAVIS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT BARGAINING TEAM Allyson Rude Azevedo Clay McAllester Sonia Lasyone Bill Sarty Mark Pennington Keith Bray, District Legal Counsel TABLE OF CONTENTS PREAMBLE ARTICLE 1 - RECOGNITION ...................................................................................................................... 1 ARTICLE 2 - DEFINITIONS ......................................................................................................................... 2 ARTICLE 3 - NEGOTIATIONS PROCEDURES ......................................................................................... 3 ARTICLE 4 - ASSOCIATION AND TEACHER RIGHTS ........................................................................... 5 ARTICLE 5 - MANAGEMENT RIGHTS ..................................................................................................... 8 ARTICLE 6 - GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE .................................................................................................. 9 ARTICLE 7 - HOURS OF EMPLOYMENT ............................................................................................... 13 ARTICLE 8 - LEAVES ................................................................................................................................ 18 ARTICLE 9 - CLASS SIZE .......................................................................................................................... 31 ARTICLE 10 - TRANSFER/REASSIGNMENT PROCEDURE ................................................................. 36 ARTICLE 11 - SCHOOL YEAR LENGTH ................................................................................................. 41 ARTICLE 12 - PERFORMANCE EVALUATION ..................................................................................... 42 ARTICLE 13 - PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT WITH FULL RETIREMENT CREDIT ............................ 46 ARTICLE 14 - SAFETY CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT .................................................................. 49 ARTICLE 15 - ORGANIZATIONAL SECURITY ...................................................................................... 50 ARTICLE 16 - PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF DIFFERENCES ............................................................. 52 ARTICLE 17 - EFFECT OF AGREEMENT ............................................................................................... 53 ARTICLE 18 - SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFITS ................................................................................. 54 ARTICLE 19 - KINDERGARTEN AND TRANSITIONAL KINDERGARTEN (TK) .............................. 60 ARTICLE 20 – DURATION ........................................................................................................................ 63 APPENDIX A - TENTATIVE AGREEMENTS AND MOU’S ................................................................... 64 APPENDIX B - PEER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM .................................................................................... 74 APPENDIX C - GRIEVANCE ..................................................................................................................... 83 APPENDIX D - EVALUATIONS ............................................................................................................... 85 APPENDIX E – SALARY SCHEDULES ................................................................................................... 94 PREAMBLE THE GOVERNING BOARD OF THE TRAVIS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS THE “BOARD”, AND THE TRAVIS UNIFIED TEACHERS ASSOCIATION, HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS THE “ASSOCIATION”, AGREE AS FOLLOWS: ARTICLE 1 RECOGNITION 1.1 BARGAINING UNIT The Board hereby recognizes the Association as the exclusive and sole negotiation agent for all certificated employees except those in management, supervisory or confidential positions. 1.2 ASSOCIATION The Board agrees not to meet and negotiate with any teachers’ organization other than the association for the duration of this Agreement; further, the Board agrees not to meet and negotiate with any teachers individually during the duration of this Agreement on matters subject to meeting and negotiating. 1.3 BOARD The Association recognizes the Board as the duly elected representative of the people and agrees to meet and negotiate only with the Board or its duly authorized representatives designated by the Board. 1.4 BOARD The Association agrees that neither it nor its members or agents will attempt to represent in any negotiations or grievances the interest of anyone other than members of the unit and that the interest of pupils, parents, the public, Board, and other employees will be the sole concern of the Board and/or these respective parties in regard to contract negotiations. 1 ARTICLE 2 DEFINITIONS 2.1 TEACHER Teacher refers to any certificated employee who is included in this bargaining unit and therefore covered by terms and provisions of this Agreement. References made to teacher shall include all genders. 2.2 STUDENT DAY Student Day means the amount of time each day students are required to be in school. 2.3 DAILY RATE OF PAY Daily Rate of Pay means the teacher’s annual salary divided by the number of contract days of service in the school year. 2.4 SUPERINTENDENT The title Superintendent shall indicate the Superintendent of Schools or the Superintendent’s designee. 2.5 PRINCIPAL OR UNIT ADMINISTRATOR The terms Principal or Unit Administrator mean management employees who have primary administration responsibility for one or more schools or offices. 2.6 BOARD OR EMPLOYER Board or Employer as used herein shall mean the Governing Board of the Travis Unified School District. 2.7 ACT Act as used herein means Government Code Section 3540 et seq. 2 ARTICLE 3 NEGOTIATIONS PROCEDURES 3.1 NEGOTIATIONS - GENERAL The Association and the Governing Board shall present proposals to the successor agreement no later than the last regular board meeting in March of the year in which this agreement expires for the purpose of a public hearing of the proposals. 3.1.1 Negotiating sessions between parties shall take place at mutually agreeable times and places. Meetings other than negotiation sessions, under normal circumstances, shall take place within ten (10) school days of receipt of a written request for such meeting. 3.1.2 The District agrees to provide all necessary and relevant data, to the Association upon request so the Association may be informed in its role as the exclusive bargaining agent. 3.1.3 Legislation or State Department of Education programs that relate to wages, hours of employment and other terms and conditions of employment shall be negotiated prior to implementation. If mandated, the parties shall bargain any impact on any current contract language. 3.2 OUTSIDE CONSULTANTS The Association and the Board may utilize the services of outside consultants to assist in negotiations. 3.3 DISCHARGE OF DUTIES The Board and the Association may discharge their respective duties by means of authorized officers, individual representatives, or committees. 3.4 RELEASE TIME - NEGOTIATIONS The Association shall be allowed released time for five (5) of its members for the purpose of attending scheduled sessions for negotiations. Representatives of the Association scheduled to participate during working hours in negotiations and impasse procedures (e.g., mediation and fact-finding), shall suffer no loss in compensation pursuant to Section 3543.1 of the Government Code. 3.5 NEGOTIATING REPRESENTATIVES The Board and Association shall each respectively select their negotiating representatives provided the Board shall not select a member of the unit, as herein defined, as its representative, and the Association shall not select as its representative a District employee who is not a member of the Associations’ unit. 3.6 TENTATIVE AGREEMENT During negotiations, items tentatively agreed upon shall be reduced to writing and initialed by both parties. If mutually agreeable, the tentatively agreed upon items shall be reduced to writing and initialed by both parties prior to adjournment of the meeting at which the tentative agreement is reached. 3 3.7 RATIFICATION Any tentative agreement so negotiated shall be reduced to writing for ratification by the parties. The tentative agreement shall be submitted to and approved by the membership of the Association and the Board prior to implementation. 4 ARTICLE 4 ASSOCIATION AND TEACHER RIGHTS 4.1 SCOPE The scope of Representation shall be limited to matters relating to wage, hours of employment, and other terms and conditions of employment. “Terms and conditions of employment” mean health and welfare benefits as defined by Section 53200, leave, transfer and reassignment policies, safety conditions of employment, class size, procedures to be used for the evaluation of employees, organization security, procedures for processing grievances and the layoff of probationary certificated school district employees. In addition, the exclusive representative