The Echo

Teachers pay will be restored, now if only I could depend on the state's share of transportation funding to get my kids to school???


http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20100517/NEWS/100517030/Finance-panel-acts-to-boost-state-workers-pay
From the News Journal:

DOVER -- The General Assembly’s Joint Finance Committee voted unanimously today to restore the 2.5 percent state employee pay cut that was implemented last year.
If approved by the full Legislature, the $35 million increase will take effect July 4, the first day of the first pay cycle of the fiscal year that begins July 1.

Restoration of the cut, which was achieved through furlough days, is a top priority of legislators and Gov. Jack Markell alike. It became financially feasible when the Delaware Economic and Financial Advisory Council raised revenue estimates for the current budget year by $39 million, and estimates for the next year by $64.6 million.

DEFAC is meeting this afternoon to approve those estimates. By law, the General Assembly must use the June DEFAC revenue estimate to set its budget.

Under the proposal approved today, merit and merit-comparable employees will see a 2.57 percent “salary restoration” starting July 4. Education employees will get 1.56 percent, plus the restoration of two professional development days that were eliminated last year. That translates to an effective 2.63 percent increase.

Employees at Delaware Technical and Community College will receive 2.57 percent, and the JFC voted to fund the equivalent increase for employees at Delaware State University and the University of Delaware. Those two institutions receive state money, but set their own pay levels