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It is up to the business owner to make housing affordable for his low income workers - it is not up to the taxpayer to provide affordable housing to accommodate employers in their quest for low paid employees.
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Santa Barbara is loaded with service workers - look around - people are practically tripping over each other. Go in a motel, a restaurant, a bank and see. Maybe a lot of college students are here anyway (50,000?) T he average apartment is $3,500 - means half are less, and people have spouses, roommates, etc, lowering costs to more like an affordable cost of $1,000 monthly. Anyway why do we need three restaurants, a bank, and a coffee shop on every block, driving demand for service workers?
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The one time payment left 6.7 million dollars in the district coffers. The payment was to create the same effect it is having on you. Instead of giving a raise that would increase the salaries of teachers moving forward, the district now looks like they are being generous. Most people haven't fallen for this. They evidently weren't clear if you think they are close. Those percentages do not equal a 19% raise for over 50% of the teaching staff. So, why put that number out there? So, people like you, who do not understand the actual outcomes of these things, will think they are being reasonable. The district has asked teachers to pivot and be flexible in unprecedented times for the last 5 years. Yet, the district will not return the favor. Teachers are not asking to become rich, just to be able to live in the community in which they invest. If the community and district keep ignoring this issue, you will continue to have high turnover. If everything was so wonderful, you would have teachers wanting to work here and would not have open positions. We had highly qualified candidates turn down jobs in this district because they couldn't afford to live here. That hasn't been the case in the past. This used to be a district where there were only a couple of positions open in some departments and 30-50 people applying for them. They are still hiring for positions in December. That is not normal. You don't seem to know the history of negotiations in this district because you would know that furlough days and class size increases were given when "something was off the table." It has been done before and the district has the power to agree to open up elements of the contract. There is nothing against any law or code and isn't unprecedented. You can't ask one side to be "flexible and pivot" when the district has a shortfall, and not do the same when the other side is saying the financial pressures are hurting their retention and you do have the money to solve the problem. They had and have the money. The request by SBTA is after looking at the books. It is not an arbitrary number. Again, if you knew the history of negotiations in this district, you would know that SBTA has often agreed not to seek increased compensation when the budget did not allow for it. They negotiated other language in order to lighten the responsibilities instead (no extra duties for example). You are highlighting a major disconnect between teachers and those on the outside created by a lack of institutional history. If you knew how negotiations have gone in the past, you would understand why this is different. They could move quicker if the district wanted it to move quicker. It is possible. You are explaining teacher negotiations to a teacher who has been in the district for 30 years.
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This looks like a page right out of the Saul Alinsky playbook, “Rules for Radicals.” Do the students have a right to protest to do the bidding for the teachers Union, disrupt other students trying to get an education and take an unexcused absence? Of course they do. Try this years later, when they’re working in private industry and they may find a pink slip in their inbox. That’s right, todays lesson plan being; make demands of your employer to work less, make more and continue to have suboptimal outcomes and then disrupt, make a scene and Bingo… you’ll get your way! Who stands up for the taxpayer in this charade? Seems like Mr. Musk recently said it best!
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The district is trying to make the public believe that an 8% raise is actually going to end up being 19%. Class sizes are not part of salaries. Not everyone takes medical benefits. Maybe some positions in the executive cabinet should be cut and no consultants should be hired. That would save about 16 million. The travel budget went up by another million-cut that too. The district can afford to give teachers a 20%, retroactive, raise NOW.

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It is up to the business owner to make housing affordable for his low income workers - it is not up to the taxpayer to provide affordable housing to accommodate employers in their quest for low paid employees.
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Santa Barbara is loaded with service workers - look around - people are practically tripping over each other. Go in a motel, a restaurant, a bank and see. Maybe a lot of college students are here anyway (50,000?) T he average apartment is $3,500 - means half are less, and people have spouses, roommates, etc, lowering costs to more like an affordable cost of $1,000 monthly. Anyway why do we need three restaurants, a bank, and a coffee shop on every block, driving demand for service workers?

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