SALARY AND PLACEMENT

8.1 Salary Schedules

8.1.1 The parties agree that there shall be no salary adjustment for the 1995-96 year.

8.1.2 There shall be a 3.06% salary adjustment retroactive to August 19, 1996 to each salary schedule included in the agreement.

8.1.3 There shall be an addition of one logevity steop to each column on the regular and probationary salary schedules effective February 18, 1997.

8.1.4 There shall be an additional 1.00% salary adjustment effective May 1, 1997, to each salary schedule included in this agreement.

8.1.5 There shall be an additional 4.00% salary adjustment effective the first day of the fall semester 1997 to each salary schedule included in this agreement.

8.2  Initial group and step placement on the appropriate salary schedule shall be based on professional experience and training as determined in accordance with Appendices C-l, C-2 and C-3.

8.3  Step and group movement shall be determined in accordance with Appendix D.

8.4   Tenured and probationary faculty members shall be paid their regular annual contract salary ten equal monthly installments on the first of each month. However, if the first falls on a weekend or holiday, then payment shall be made on the next day the District's offices are open. The ten payments shall start on October 1. Additionally, if the calendar for Fall semester requires a starting date prior to September 1, full-time faculty may request to be paid an advance against their October check by submitting the proper paperwork to Payroll prior to the first day of fall classes.

8.4.1 In lieu of the payment arrangements described in 8.4, full-time faculty shall have the option of receiving 12 (twelve) equal payments on the first of every month, beginning October 1.

8.5  Hourly employees working a compressed 16-week semester assignment shall be paid in four installments each semester during the regular year. Payment shall be made on the last week day of each month after the first month of the semester.

8.6  Unit members employed to teach on an hourly basis shall receive a minimum of two (2) weeks of pay for a graded class that is canceled after the class convenes. Hourly faculty who have unconditional employment contracts shall be compensated as stated in their contracts.

8.7  Graded hourly faculty members who taught graded classes during the spring and/or summer sessions of 1977 shall be placed no lower than Group III, Step 2 on the graded hourly faculty schedule, and shall be entitled to step advancement when the necessary weekly teaching hours have been accumulated.

8.8  Effective January 1, 1990, Nicholas DiCamillo shall have his salary fixed at an amount off the regular salary schedule. Annual increases for this employee shall be the same as the general increase to the regular salary schedule. In the event the employee qualifies for group movement, he shall receive the greater of the special placement or the point on the salary schedule for which he would qualify.