LEGISLATIVE YEAR 2022
RESOLUTION: R-22-022
PURPOSE: Approving the cost items of a collective bargaining agreement
between the Nashua Board of Education and the Nashua
Teachers’ Union, Local 1044, AFT, AFL-CIO from September
1, 2021 through August 31, 2025 and authorizing a related
transfer and supplemental appropriation
ENDORSERS: Alderman-at-Large Lori Wilshire
COMMITTEE
ASSIGNMENT: Budget Review Commitee
FISCAL NOTE: The cost analysis is attached. As there are not enough funds in
the FY2022 Contingency for Negotiations account to pay for
the Teachers Collective Bargaining Contract for FY2022, a
supplemental appropriation from assigned fund balance will
be necessary.
ANALYSIS
This resolution approves the cost items of a collective bargaining agreement between the Nashua
Board of Education and the Nashua Teachers’ Union, Local 1044, AFT, AFL-CIO, The
agreement has a term of four years, from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2025. The Board
of Aldermen must vote whether or not to approve the cost items of this contract within thirty days of
receipt. RSA 273-A:3 I] (c).
The resolution also authorizes a transfer of funds from ‘Contingency, Negotiations” into
“School, Payroll Adjustments” to partially fund the FY2022 base salary adjustments contained in
the collective bargaining agreement. Charter Sec. 53 permits the Board of Aldermen to transfer
any unencumbered appropriation balance or any portion thereof from one department, fund or
agency to another. NRO § 5-130, H provides that "when proposed legislation to transfer or re-
appropriate a particular appropriation or portion thereof has had its first reading, such funds shall
not be expended or transferred while the legislation is pending”.
This resolution also supplementally appropriates unassigned fund balance to fund the remainder
of the FY2022 base salary adjustments contained in the collective bargaining agreement. Charter
Sec. 53 permits specific non-budget, supplementary appropriations. There should be notice and
a public hearing. A two-thirds vote is required under Charter Sec. 56-b for an item or amount
not in the mayor’s budget. A roll call is required under Charter Sec. 49.
