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By DAPHNE McCULLOUGH
Rappahannock ^rw» Staff Writer
Members of the Rappahannock School Board voted unanimously to deny a request for binding arbitration in grievance procedures as the review of the personnel policy manual continued at the June meeting of the Board.
They also turned down requests from the Rappahannock County Education Association (RCEA) for a change in reassignment policy, raise in unused sick leave pay to $20 per day and an additional day awarded for personal leave.
Reading from a prepared statement, RCEA president Don Bomberger maintained that binding arbitration should be made available “in the best interest of the community, the board and the teachers” for the resolution of contractual disputes. He acknowledged that the Virginia Supreme Court had denied the state Board of Education’s right to impose binding arbitration on local school boards.
However, he continued that “the Attorney General has recently ruled that local school boards may adopt, on their own motion, a procedure which includes binding arbitration and may implement the procedure if it is approved by the State Board. They way is clear for this Board to adopt binding arbitration of grievances as was previously the policy prior to the Supreme Court’s ruling,” he said.
After Bomberger's statement, Superintendent William Bloomer passed out material from the state Board of Education, detailing.a proposed alternative to
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