Snohomish Education Association Teacher Financial Details

With compromise, a word the District doesn't seem to have in its vocabulary, their estimated two-year $1,645,503 cost difference between SEA's September 6 proposal and the District's September 2 proposal would shrink significantly!

First: The District's estimates are a 2-year accumulative cost. That is, if you spend $1 on a continuing expense in year 1 it has to be maintained, and over 2 years will cost a total of $2.00. Keep in mind if one does this with expenses, one should also do it with continuing revenues.

Second: The District includes a $132,000 cost for wrapping the 4 current optional days into the TRI schedule. Why? Because only 75% of the days were claimed, even though they budget for 100%. SEA disagrees with including this as a cost. On a 2-year accumulative basis this reduces the $1,645,503 million to $1,381,503.

Third: The District includes $121,543 in year 1, $243,086 over 2 years, because by law they have to pay the non State funded staff the same salary increase as State funded staff receive. We could argue this should not be attached to SEA's proposal as a cost, but we will let it ride.

Fourth: With compromise, that means yes, SEA can come down from its September 6 proposal, but it also means the District must come up from its September 2 proposal, the $1,381,503 two year cost difference would obviously decline accordingly.

Calculate the possibilities yourself by using these facts:

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