We’ve had a
little more time to review the House and Senate budget released yesterday, and
I need to apologize for frequently amending yesterday’s blog entry as I worked
to make sense of the numbers. One thing
that is clear now is that both the House and Senate have honored the pledge to
move toward full funding of the VRS certified contribution rate by July 1,
2018.
We’ve also
had a chance to figure out which groups of employees got raises:
Higher Education Faculty
Senate 1% Salary + 1% bonus
House Included in Institution’s budget
State Employees
Senate 1% COLA (12/1/14)
1% bonus (12/1/15)
House 2% adjustment for high turnover
positions (12/10/14)
2% bonus for those not
in high turnover positions (7/1/15)
State Supported Local Employees
Senate 1% COLA (12/1/14)
1% bonus (12/1/15)
House 2 to 4% additional for certain
sheriffs and circuit court staff (1/1/15)
2% bonus (7/1/15)
Teachers/Support Personnel
Senate 0%
House 0%
If you don’t
think this is right, the first people to call are your Delegate and your
Senator.
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