$2 Million Pay Package Presented By Teachers

The negotiating team tor the Ann Arbor Teachers' Association (AATA) presented a $2 million salary counter - proposal to the Board of Education's negotiators last night. This is a $500,000 reduction from the teachers' original proposal, presented last December. According to the new plan, the salary of teachers with a bachelor's degree would range from $6,500 to $11,700, instead of the $6,800 to $12,240 range originally proposed. Current starting salary for a teacher with a BA degree $6,000. The salary of teachers with a master's degree would range from $7,150 to $13,000, instead of the $7,480 to $13,600 range initially proposed. Teachers with MA degrees currently receive a $6,300 starting salary. The AATA's new proposal includes the same fringe benefit package that was initially rejquested - f uil paid-up health and accident insurance for all employees and their dependents or $10 per month on other options available, plus $10,000 life insurance policies. The teachers were responding to last week's salary offer by the Board of Education of $200 raises for the teachers now at the top level (beyond step 10) of the current salary schedule. These teachers would not otherwise be eligible for pay hikes next year. The board's proposed r a i s e would mean an increase in base salary from $10,140 to $10,340 for teachers with a bachelor's degree and from $11,070 to $11,270 for teachers with a master's degree. Trustee Joseph R. Julin, chairman of the board's negotiating team, told The News today the board would study the teachers' new proposal and give a "measured response" on Feb. 27. "But frankly," he said, "it is quite clear that we are not really in the same park. "We still are very far apartl which . . . only points out thel seriousness of the situation." I Julin was referring to a $5 mil-l lion deficit which is expected to face the school district this spring. "We need $17.2 million just to stand still and to finance our present offer to the teachers," he said. "But our assured income is only $12 million, which would be raised to $14 million if the é'a-mill operating renewal is approved." "Considering the situation, the board negotiating team has agreed to re-appraise the entire fiscal situation - which one could characterize as desperate - and will return in two weeks with a measured response." The two teams will not meet next Tuesday because of t h e Board of Education's workload in selecting a new superintendent and in setting the date and amount of a spring bonding election. .