2006 Utah Code - 53A-25-111 — Annual salary adjustments for school employees -- Benefits.

     53A-25-111.   Annual salary adjustments for school employees -- Benefits.
     (1) (a) The board shall adjust the salary schedule applicable to nonadministrative licensed staff at the school each school year.
     (b) The board shall make the adjustment equal to a weighted average adjustment for nonadministrative licensed staff adopted by the public school districts of the state as determined by the State Office of Education. This average shall be weighted by the number of teachers in each district.
     (c) The board shall increase this weighted average by 10% in any year in which the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind teachers are not ranked in the top ten in 20 year earnings when compared to the 40 school districts of the state.
     (2) (a) The adjustment shall be computed using adjustments made by the school districts by December 1 of each year.
     (b) The board shall apply the adjustment to the salary schedule effective July 1 of the following year.
     (3) The board shall make salary adjustments for administrative and nonlicensed staff at the school on the basis of adjustments approved for state government employees in similar positions.
     (4) Administrative, licensed, and nonlicensed staff at the school shall receive the same benefits as those provided to state government employees.
     (5) The State Board of Education shall include in its annual budget request for the Utah Schools for the Deaf and the Blind an amount of money sufficient to implement the salary adjustments required by Subsections (2) and (3), including money to fund step and lane changes.

Amended by Chapter 308, 2006 General Session