Teachers, staff get good news CCSD proposes one-time payment for all its unions
Judge backs ruling by arbitrator, tells district to pay raises
A district judge on Friday upheld an arbitrator’s decision that Clark County teachers should receive a pay raise and increased district contributions to health care.
In a five-page order, District Judge Rob Bare agreed with the arbitrator’s assessment that the district failed to show it could not pay for the raise sought by the Clark County Education Association, the local teachers union, during contract talks that ended in an impasse. Bare ordered the district to pay the raises, estimated to cost $13 million in fiscal year 2018 and $38.5 million the next year.
The arbitrator first issued a decision in late March, but the Clark County School District and trustees appealed in early April, citing an inability to pay.
“This court finds that the Clark County School District failed to meet its burden to establish that the March 30, 2018, arbitration award was either arbitrary or capricious, or based upon a
ARBITRATION
In an effort to improve employee morale, the Clark County School District will offer all employee unions a one-time payment of approximately 3 percent, the district announced Friday night.
“One of (the) priorities of the Board of Trustees and Superintendent (Jesus) Jara is to improve employee morale,” district spokeswoman Kirsten Searer said in a statement. “This offer was made in an effort to resolve all employee compensation or compensation components of open contracts through June 30, 2019.”
The payment would be similar to a bonus and would not change current salary schedules.
It would be offered to teach
JARA
“He had an amazingly rough time,” Maes said.
The couple had lived in the neighborhood “forever,” Maes said. They were always together, she said. Maes and another neighbor remembered seeing the couple walk their grandchildren to nearby Taylor Elementary School.
The single-story house, like others on the street, has a gated front yard with an old tree shading the driveway.
A man and a woman arrived at the home Friday afternoon in a bright-blue pickup truck and entered. They declined to comment.
First responders flooded the street early Friday, Maes said.
“We knew it was bad immediately because all these cops came,” she said.
The Clark County coroner’s office will release the victims’ identities once relatives are notified.
This marks Henderson’s sixth homicide of the year.
Henderson police urged anybody with information on the case to call them at 702-267-4911 or 311. The public can also call Crime Stoppers at 702-385-5555 to remain anonymous.
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