Negotiations Updates
Negotiations Update - SRVUSD and CSEA- Session 7 - march 18, 2026
posted Mar. 23, 2026Negotiations Update - SRVUSD and CSEA- Session 7 - march 18, 2026 ![]()
posted Mar. 23, 2026
Negotiations Update - SRVUSD and CSEA- Session 7 - march 18, 2026
The San Ramon Valley Unified School District (SRVUSD) negotiations team and the California School Employees Association (CSEA) negotiations team met on March 18, 2026, for the seventh session related to the 2025-2028 successor agreement for Unit II and Unit III.
The parties discussed the following topics:
- MOU Governor’s Proposed Discretionary Block Grant - 2026
- Salaries
- Layoff
- Grievance
- Employee Benefits
- Transfers
- Special Services
District Proposals Provided to CSEA - March 18, 2026
The District provided the following proposals to CSEA. Highlights of each proposal are summarized below.
Pending the enactment of the Student Support and Professional Development Discretionary Block Grant included in the Governor’s January Budget Proposal for the 2026-27 school year, provided the grant is:
- Fully discretionary revenue provided to the district.
- One-time funding above and beyond the LCFF calculation and not part of the LCFF funding formula.
- Totals at least $13.5 million dollars for the 2026-2027 year, to be apportioned in the 2026-2027 budget year.
- Permitted to be expended through June 30, 2029.
- The parties agree that $874,838 of the Discretionary Block Grant funding shall be allocated to CSEA. These funds shall be used on a one-time basis during the 2026–2027 and 2027–2028 school years for the purpose of restoring prior budget reductions, as previously negotiated between CSEA and the District.
- The District will provide all unit members a one-time payment of zero point five three percent ( 0.53 %) based upon their salary schedule placement as of January 1, 2026. This will be received no later than April 30, 2026. (Additional language shall be included here to ensure compliance with applicable requirements by CalPERS one-time payments for creditable compensation/service).
- The District shall pay for current benefits in the same proportion as each employee is to full-time equivalent status. The benefit package shall include Kaiser and at least one non-Kaiser option, as well as dental coverage, vision care, mental health coverage, and term life insurance. The specific plans shall be those agreed to between the Association and the District. Each employee shall be notified annually of the plans which are available.
- In any fiscal year in which the negotiated salary schedule(s) increase is zero (0) percent, there will be no contribution made to the Retiree Benefit Plan and Trust.
- Any required employee contribution that would otherwise have been made in a fiscal year with a zero (0) percent ongoing salary schedule increase shall be deferred and trued up in the immediately succeeding fiscal year in which an ongoing salary increase greater than zero (0) percent is applied to the CSEA salary schedule(s).
- Due to the 2nd Interim Budget presented to the Board of Education on March 10, 2026, the District is not in a position to commit to additional ongoing expenditures at this time. The District remains open to revisiting this matter when fiscal conditions improve in the future.
- The District may transfer an employee within their classification to balance workloads or to reduce excess staff. Transfers will be made based on site seniority by classification.
- The District may initiate an employee transfer, within their classification, to mitigate irreconcilable work related conflicts that are having an adverse impact on the department, site and/or program.
CSEA Proposals Provided to the District - March 18, 2026
CSEA provided the following proposal to the District. Highlights of each proposal are summarized below.
Article XIV: Salaries (Unit II and Unit III)
- For 2025-26, the Unit II Salary schedules shall be increased by 2% effective July 1, 2025.
- In addition, the District will provide unit members a one-time off-schedule payment of 1.5% of their annual base salary for 2025-26 school year based on the member’s salary schedule placement on November 1, 2025.
- For Unit II, if any site has 2 or more staff members absent in one day, they will receive extra hours automatically. These automatic extra hours shall be calculated based on the total absent FTE multiplied by 0.25. Hours covered by a sub would be excluded from this calculation.
Article XVII: Layoff (Unit II and Unit III)
- An employee on the reemployment list who elected retirement under this section may decline up to three (3) offers of reemployment in their former classification. After the third refusal, the District may ask whether the employee wishes to continue receiving reemployment offers. If the employee elects to discontinue receiving offers, the employee shall be considered permanently retired.
- Employees must respond to offers of employment within two (2) business days or the offer will be considered withdrawn.
Article XV: Grievance Procedure (Unit II and Unit III)
- Association representatives shall notify their supervisor of a scheduled meeting. Should an operation emergency arise that prevents the Association representative from attending, the representative’s supervisor shall immediately contact the supervisor of the employee requiring representation and Human Resources when appropriate. The meeting shall be postponed until an Association representative is available, unless mutually agreed otherwise. Operational needs shall be maintained to the extent possible without infringing upon an employee's right to representation.
Tentative Agreement Reached
While no tentative agreements were reached on March 18, 2026, the parties are committed to continued collaboration on all topics.
Next Steps
The next negotiations session is scheduled for March 20, 2026.
Topics to be discussed:
- MOU Governor’s Proposed Discretionary Block Grant
- Salaries
- Layoff
- Grievance
- Employee Benefits
- Transfers
- Special Services
- MOU LEA BOP
- MOU Service Logs/Charting
- Technology
Representatives in Attendance for Negotiations Today
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San Ramon Valley
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If you would like to review additional information regarding the process, documents, resources, and iterations of the budget reduction plans, you may view those here:
