65 School Managers Get 2.75% Pay Hike

Sixty-five nonunion managers employed by the Las Virgenes Unified School District are slated to receive 2.75% pay hikes retroactive to July 1995.

The increases, approved last week by the Board of Education, coincide with similar cost-of-living increases for two unionized employee groups, officials said.

The managers’ raises will cost the district an additional $56,000 per year, said Donald Zimring, the district’s superintendent of business. The increases, he said, are designed to keep district salaries competitive.

Members of the Las Virgenes Educators Assn. received a pay increase of 4.6% for fiscal 1995-96, district officials said. In exchange, their benefits were reduced, officials said. In fiscal 1994-95, according to district records, teachers received pay increases of .024%, and received no raises the year before.

Las Virgenes Classified Assn. members received 6% to 8% raises as part of a new three-year contract with the district finalized this spring. It ties future pay hikes to increases in state aid or enrollment.

The teachers union is negotiating a new three-year contract with the district. “We’re optimistic,� said Rose Dunn, president of the union, which recently presented its proposed contract to district officials. Dunn said she expects the contract to be finalized sometime this summer.