Arizona Laws 15-1329. Employee salaries and classification; definition
A. The board shall determine the salaries and assign an employee classification of persons it employs, except for the superintendent as provided in section 15-1325.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 15-1329
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Fiscal year: means the year beginning July 1 and ending June 30. See Arizona Laws 15-101
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- person: means an individual, partnership, corporation, association or public or private organization of any kind. See Arizona Laws 15-101
- Schools: means the Arizona state schools for the deaf and the blind and includes programs and services offered for the deaf and the blind by the schools in conjunction with other educational institutions. See Arizona Laws 15-1301
B. All salary schedules for employees of the schools shall become operative on July 1 of each year and shall be included in the estimate of expenses submitted by the superintendent.
C. In any fiscal year in which monies are appropriated to the department of education to provide teacher salary increases, each teacher who is employed by the Arizona state schools for the deaf and the blind in that fiscal year is eligible for the same salary increase from that appropriation in the same manner as any other public schoolteacher.
D. For the purposes of this section, "teacher who is employed by the Arizona state schools for the deaf and the blind" means a person who both:
1. Was eligible to be included in the year-end full-time equivalent teacher count of the Arizona state schools for the deaf and the blind for the 2016-2017 school year in the annual financial report of the Arizona state schools for the deaf and the blind.
2. Teaches at the Arizona state schools for the deaf and the blind during the school year.