Union Demands Continue Even as BOE Set to Adopt FY 2014 Budget

At today's Board of Education meeting, the Closed Session Agenda shows that the Union contracts for FY 2014 have not been finalized.

...Resolved, That the Board receive a briefing by staff and discuss ongoing collective bargaining negotiations and matters that relate to the negotiations...

The Board of Education is also set to adopt the FY 2014 Operating Budget today.

How can the Board of Education be approving the FY 2014 Operating Budget when the contracts with the unions have not been finalized? Why are negotiations ongoing? Shouldn't that be an Open Session discussion?

  01.1 Resolution for Closed Session by   Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, Maryland