The Pinellas County School Board concluded its pay negotiations Dec. 16 with the approval of raises for all employee groups who hadn’t yet gotten increases in their paychecks this year.
Groups now set to see their salaries rise with the mid-January pay cycle include educational support staff, district police, professional-technical workers and administrators.
The action comes two months after the board completed contracts with teachers, bus drivers and nonbargaining, nonadministrative employees. These latest groups had not worked through all the terms of their agreements at that time. And the administration traditionally waits until all other deals are finished before getting its own…