GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

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HOUSE BILL 1759

Short Title:  School Maintenance Worker Funds.	(Public )
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Sponsors: Representatives Fussell; Anderson, Barnes, Barnhill, Blue, Bowman, Burke, Church, Colton, Cunningham, Dickson, Duncan, B. Ethridge, Fitch, Flaherty, Foster, Gist, Hardaway, Hege, Holt, Judy Hunt, H. Hunter, R. Hunter, Jeralds, Justus, Kennedy, Locks, McLaughlin, Michaux, Nesbitt, Nye, Payne, Perdue, Ramsey, Rhodes, Rogers, Stamey, R. Thompson, Walker, Warren, Watkins, Wicker, P. Wilson. G. Wilson, Wiser, and Woodard.
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Referred to: Appropriations.

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May 5, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO MAKE THE SALARIES OF SCHOOL MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL THE SAME AS THE SALARIES OF STATE EMPLOYEES AND TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THAT PURPOSE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 115C-12(16) reads as rewritten:
"(16)	Power with Regard to Salary Schedules. –
a.	Support personnel refers to all public school employees who are not required by statute or regulation to be certified in order to be employed. The State Board of Education is authorized and empowered to adopt all necessary rules for full implementation of all schedules to the extent that State funds are made available for support personnel.
b.	Salary schedules for the following public school support personnel shall be adopted by the State Board of Education: school finance officer, office support personnel, property and cost clerks, aides, maintenance supervisors and other maintenance personnel, custodial personnel, and transportation personnel. The Board shall classify these support positions in terms of uniform pay grades included in the  salary schedule of the State Personnel Commission.
c.	Salary schedules for other support personnel, including but not limited to school food service personnel, shall be adopted by the State Board of Education. The Board shall classify these support positions in terms of uniform pay grades included in the salary schedule of the State Personnel Commission. These  schedules shall apply if the local board of education does not adopt a salary schedule of its own for personnel paid from other than State appropriations."
Sec. 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Education $7,333,400 for the 1989-90 fiscal year to reimburse the local boards of education for the additional costs they incur in paying school maintenance personnel on the salary schedule the State Board of Education adopts pursuant to G.S. 115C-12(16)b.
This appropriation shall become a part of the continuation budget but shall be phased out by decreasing the amount by $1,466,680 each year, beginning with the 1991-92 fiscal year.
Sec. 3.  Section 1 of this act shall become effective July 1, 1990.  Section 2 of this act shall become effective July 1, 1989.