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The Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District board on Tuesday will consider raises for more than 30 positions for this school year and next.
The employees up for salary increases are Livermore Management Association members, which includes principals, vice principals, directors and executive directors, and classified managers/confidential members, which includes more than 20 positions such as athletic trainers, the behavior analyst supervisor and child nutrition coordinators.
The board will vote on the increases at Tuesday’s meeting. If approved, the qualifying employees would receive a 3% raise retroactive to July 1, 2026, a 1.5% increase effective Jan 1 and another 1.5% bump effective July 1, according to the agenda.
For the current school year, the raises will cost the district a total of $652,632, with about $600,000 coming from the general fund. Beginning next school year, the raises have an ongoing cost of about $1.1 million, with about $1 million coming from the general fund.
The board is also set to grant Assistant Superintendent of Special Education Kelly Manke a 2.5% step increase for the 2025-26 school year worth $6,569, in accordance with her employment agreement.
Also on the table, trustees will consider approving a first reading of updated board bylaws to clarify conflict of interest and campaign contribution requirements for trustees and the superintendent, as well as procedural updates for meeting notices, agenda preparation and posting, remote participation, public comments and disruption management during board meetings, according to the agenda.
The updates reflect recent changes to the Political Reform Act, the Brown Act and related requirements in government and education codes.
The school board meeting Tuesday (Oct. 13) is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m., and the agenda is available here.
In other business
*Staff will present the results of state and local assessments and metrics, as required annually of school districts. The presentation covers student demographics, rates of college and career readiness, graduation, chronic absenteeism and English, math and English-language learner progress.
The presentation also offers an overview of district priorities including improving elementary writing skills and improving the rate of progress for emergent bilingual students.
*Staff will also give a presentation on the annual Math Placement Act report, which shows that 99% of sixth-grade students and 96% of ninth-grade students were placed in the appropriate math courses.
*Another staff presentation will cover the 2026-27 district-wide 10-day enrollment report, which showed that actual enrollment (12,824) exceeded the projected enrollment by 32 students. As an informational item, the board is not required to take action on the enrollment report.
*As part of the consent calendar, the board is set to approve updates to the 2026-27 substitute salary schedule with raises for the custodian, child nutrition assistant and groundskeeper classifications. The updates are required given previous negotiations between the school district and Service Employees International Union for the union’s 2026-27 salary schedules.
The raises are estimated to cost about $8,000 from the general fund and $1,000 from the cafeteria fund, but the actual cost will depend on the number of substitutes employed during the school year.
* The board is set to adopt multiple resolutions in recognition of September as Attendance Awareness Month, Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 as National Hispanic Heritage Month, October as LGBTQ+ History Month and Character Education month, Oct. 21 as Unity Day and Oct. 23-31 as Red Ribbon Week.
Livermore school board to consider raises for two employee groups, including leadershipOctober 12, 2026 5:51 pm
