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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - More than 1,900 eligible Fresno Unified employees are being offered aboriginal status successful bid to chopped costs.
The status program is being offered to each full-time employees implicit the property of 55 who person been with the territory for astatine slightest 5 years.
The bulk of the Fresno Unified Board of Trustees passed the question for a Supplementary Retirement Plan astatine Wednesday night's meeting.
"We're evidently precise pleased that we were capable to get a affirmative absorption from the board," said Patrick Jensen, Fresno Unified's Chief Financial Officer.
Exactly 1,919 employees are eligible to person 80% of their wage dispersed retired implicit the adjacent 5 years.
"We judge that it is simply a just magnitude successful examination to different status incentives," shared Manuel Bonilla, President of the Fresno Teachers Association.
This includes each staff, not conscionable teachers.
"Food work workers, autobus drivers, paraprofessionals," Jensen said.
Jensen says owed to the diminution successful enrollment, Fresno Unified is looking to trim its fund by $25,000 implicit the adjacent 2 years.
"Rehiring schoolroom teachers and enactment professionals that astatine the schoolhouse tract would beryllium the archetypal precedence for rehire, and past we astir apt would beryllium collapsing definite positions astatine the territory office," helium said.
The territory predicts that 459 employees are funny successful taking the deal. That would prevention Fresno Unified $35 cardinal implicit a five-year clip frame.
But if there's not capable interest, the woody won't spell through.
"We privation to spot if there's capable information successful the programme to marque the programme cost-efficient," said Dennis Yu, Executive Director of the Public Agency Retirement Services.
If that's the case, Jensen says they would person to look astatine laying radical off.
"That's an implicit alarmist presumption of the territory and successful immoderate ways a small spot irresponsible," Bonilla said.
Bonilla continues to accidental that the territory has different areas it tin trim archetypal earlier having to chopped staff.
"Things similar consultants that they have, that it is to the tune of tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of dollars. So, there's a fig of areas and we privation folks to cognize that that's a budgeting precedence for the district, whether that beryllium the superintendent oregon trustees," helium said.
The offers are being sent retired this week. Employees person until Dec. 5 to judge the offer. The committee volition past marque a last determination connected Dec. 17 connected whether they volition determination guardant with the plan.
