{"id":2871,"date":"2016-09-07T15:19:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T23:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/?p=2871"},"modified":"2016-09-07T15:19:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T23:19:06","slug":"news-release-kpbsd-and-the-kpea-and-the-kpesa-reach-tentative-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2016\/09\/07\/news-release-kpbsd-and-the-kpea-and-the-kpesa-reach-tentative-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"News Release: KPBSD, KPEA, KPESA reach Tentative Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenai Peninsula Borough School District<a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2016\/07\/KPBSD-schools-map-2016.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2810\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2016\/07\/KPBSD-schools-map-2016-300x293.png\" alt=\"KPBSD schools map 2016\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nContact: Pegge Erkeneff, 907.714.8888<\/p>\n<h3><u>News Release<\/u><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong><em>KPBSD and the KPEA and the KPESA reach Tentative Agreement<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Soldotna, September 7, 2016\u2014The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District (KPBSD), the Kenai Peninsula Education Association (KPEA) and the Kenai Peninsula Education Support Association (KPESA) reached a Tentative Agreement, for a three year contract with certified (KPEA) and classified (KPESA) employees, for the time period July 1, 2015, through June 30, 2018.<\/strong><br \/>\nThe three year negotiated agreement adopts recommendations from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/Workarea\/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=36556\">Arbitrator\u2019s report<\/a> (August, 2016) as is, with the addition of the FY16 bonus for KPESA members as offered by the KPBSD in its April 15, 2016 offer, and other date changes related to the new health care plan.<br \/>\nWhen the Associations ratify the tentative agreements, they will be presented for final approval by the Kenai Peninsula Board of Education during a public school board meeting.<br \/>\nSean Dusek, superintendent said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI am pleased that we have reached a tentative agreement with our staff. I appreciate the hard work that all of the bargaining teams put in throughout the process. We are now able to move forward together to continue to provide a high quality education for all of our students.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Link<\/strong><br \/>\nKPBSD <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/departments.aspx?id=32819\">Collective Bargaining*<\/a> webpage<br \/>\n<em>*includes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/Workarea\/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=36657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 7, 2016 Tentative Agreement<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/Workarea\/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=36556\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Advisory Arbitration August 2016 award<\/a> to KPBSD, KPEA, KPESA documents<\/em><br \/>\n###<br \/>\nThis and all <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/MediaPublicRelationships\">KPBSD media releases<\/a> are online at this web page: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/MediaPublicRelationships\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/MediaPublicRelationships<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Contact: Pegge Erkeneff, 907.714.8888 News Release KPBSD and the KPEA and the KPESA reach Tentative Agreement Soldotna, September 7, 2016\u2014The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2016\/09\/07\/news-release-kpbsd-and-the-kpea-and-the-kpesa-reach-tentative-agreement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;News Release: KPBSD, KPEA, KPESA reach Tentative Agreement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[255,618,619,718],"class_list":["post-2871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-release","tag-collective-bargaining","tag-kpea","tag-kpesa","tag-negotiations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}