NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — The Yuba Community College District Board this week will consider approving a new faculty contract that will bring to a close two years of increasingly fraught negotiations.

The board will meet in closed session at 3 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 9, to discuss labor negotiations with groups including the Faculty Association of Yuba Community College District before the regular session begins at 5 p.m. at Yuba College, 2088 N. Beale Road, Building 300-Flavors, Marysville.

Members of the public can attend the meeting virtually through this Zoom link.

The Zoom Meeting ID is 879 3425 1702; the call-in number is 1-669-900-6833.

On the agenda’s action item list is the proposed approval of the 134-page collective bargaining agreement for 2022 to 2026 between the district and the Faculty Association of Yuba Community College District, or FAYCCD.

Last month, the district and FAYCCD announced they had reached a tentative agreement after two years of negotiations, as Lake County News has reported.

The staff report for the meeting explains that the proposed agreement addresses several key items, including adopting a new evaluation form with updated language, development of a new course cap rubric and a new process for identifying course maximums, and gives a retirement incentive and provides a change in structure of health and welfare benefits for those hired on or after Jan. 1, 2025, in order to provide consistency in practice with other employee groups.

It also offers cost of living adjustments totaling 5.25% for 2022-2023, 6.58% for 2023-2024, 0.86% for 2024-2025 and 80% of the YCCD realized COLA for 2025-2026.

The report notes, “The fiscal impact of the full-time faculty COLA adjustments, retirement incentive, and health and welfare benefits have been analyzed and determined. The District has a short-term funding plan to cover retroactive adjustments along with long-term plan to cover the increases on an ongoing basis as part of the revision to the Adopted Budget for 2024-25.”

That budget revision is scheduled on the agenda just ahead of the contract consideration.

The contract will be followed by a separate item to approve cost-of-living adjustments for district classified professionals and administrators.

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