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Regional Teachers Get 6.1-8.5 Percent

By EJ. DUFFY ERMA — Teachers in the Lower Cape May Regional School District will get at least a 6.1 percent annual pay hike and as much as an 8.5 percent increase each year from their new three-year contract with the district board of education. The Lower Cape May Regional Education Association, which represents 107 educators in the district high school and Richard M. Teitelman middle school, ratified the new labor agreement eaflier this month. The board tentatively approved the contract on June 23 and plans a final vote tomorrow night. Students from Cape May, Cape May Point, and Lower Township attend Regional and Teitelman. "It looks like they're all coming in as two-year packages at 16>* to 18 percent total or 8^ to 9 percent a year," Edward Bomeman, president of the Cape May County Education Association said of local and regional labor pacts between teachers and their school boards. OF THE 21 school districts in the county, he noted, Sea Isle City and Upper Township are covered by current

contracts.

Avalon’s teachers settled for an 8.5 percent increase this year and 9 percent next year, Borneman added, while Wildwood Crest teachers also ratified a two-year Ocean City’s school board and teachers have reached a tentative agreement, but no figures were available from the New Jersey Education Association on that pact,

Vocational-Technical School have reached an impasse in an attempt to negotiate their first contract with the vo-tech school board, Borneman continued, as have negotiators in Wildwood and Woodbine districts. All other teachers’ contract are in various stages of negotiation as well, he said. And, as in the Lower Cape May Regional district, contracts between school boards and administrators or supportive staffs await the outcome of the teachers’ agreement In LCMR, both the district and the teachers’ representatives said they were happy with the latest agreement. The district had budgeted $1 949,806 for 1983 teacher salaries. The three-year agreement comes in below that figure per year and is tied to the cost of living index in the second and third years. LCMR’S CONTRACT calls for teachers at the bottom and top of the seniority and educational scales to receive 6.1 percent pay hikes in their respective $13,558 or $24,777 current yearly salaries plus additional pay for the levels of their senority and'education. The previous teachers’ contract was set to expire tomorrow as are pacts with the LCMR administrators and its supportive staff of cafeteria workers, custodians etc. "We’re in the process of negotiating with them now,” a district official said of talks with the two unions. "We’re not far into tnem yet."

• 6* SSI Checks Get Bigger

Recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) in New Jersey will receive an increase in their checks July 1. Del Brooks, mana ger of the Social-Security office in Wildwood, said that the increase would go to recipients as a result of legislation signed into law in April. An individual recipient living alone in New Jersey will receive $331.40 per month, up from $311.40. A couple now receiving $447.60 a month will be increased to $477.60. UNDER THE legislation, the Federal portion of the benefit was increased by $20 for an individual, and $30 for a couple. The full amount will be reflected in the additional amount added on by New Jersey Brooks added that there were 82,994 people receiving SSI benefits in New Jersey, and over 1,100 in Cape May County

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