1/. Arizona Mirror is part of States Newsroom, a network of news bureaus supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Likely there will be some sort of compromise concerning the two state bills. December 9, 2014 Leave a comment. Karamargin, Duceys spokesman, said there is increasing competitiveness in all sorts of jobs. Ducey is seeking a permanent 15% raise for state troopers, 20% for juvenile and adult corrections employees and pay boosts for several other agencies that total nearly $250 million a year. It would raise payments from $240 to $320, with a second increase to $400 when the state's unemployment fund is back to its normal level. This is what our state, where voters are nearly evenly divided by party affiliation, has long asked of us to work together, said Rep. Reginald Bolding of Laveen, the top Democrat in the House. Our priorities are so misplaced if were saying we are conservative, she said. For 2023, lawmakers approved a 4% raise for state employees. "Arizona came in second to last. Kay Ivey approved of the step changes prior to the boards decision. The Legislature set aside $84 million for much-needed job-class-specific pay increases. Only a handful of dissenters from each party voted against the package of bills, and Republican Gov. Arizona Department of Administration. Arizona State Retirement System (employees) Ghaddar Samer. Whoops! Republicans countered Friday that the raises and bonuses far outstrip what households in the private sector are receiving. Their agreement adds $80 million in combined additional funding for Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University, bringing their funding boosts in line with additional money already allocated to University of Arizona. That includes $544 million for border security, roughly half of it for a wall, and $1 billion for highway construction, including widening Interstate 10 north of Casa Grande. Its excessive.. State law gives the board the autonomy to change employee classifications and pay plans. Doug Ducey quietly tapped $95 million in federal coronavirus relief money in November to boost pay for state troopers, prison guards and workers in several other state departments deemed essential. The employee pay raise bill got to the finish line with a $10,000 raise for State Troopers, up from the original $2,550 figure. March 10, 2022. Kay Ivey approved of the step changes prior to the boards decision. Doug Ducey, who appoints judges, a chance to further shape a conservative bench just ahead of his departure from office. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona Mirror. Support local journalism. "Weve got some quite a few critical positions that are vital to public safety," Karamargin said. Doug Ducey was expected to approve it. WebRaise Corporate STO Cap by $2 M; Increase Individual STO cap by $250/$500 in FY 24 (2.0) (11.9) (13.0) 10 Expand Vets Property Tax Exemption to all Disability Levels (Savings in '24) (Separate Bill) Yes - see ADE Yes - see ADE Yes - see ADE 11: Eliminate State Equalization Tax Rate see ADE see ADE see ADE Senate Bill 531 applies to teachers, school counselors, school service personnel and State Troopers. Republican leaders had struggled for months to craft a spending plan that could find unanimous support in the fractious GOP caucuses without relying on Democrats. State employees have stepped up and answered the call of $160 per employee a year to $186 per employee a year. From families with school-age children, to the 35,000 state employees to motorists seeking a smoother drive, the budget has money for many of their needs. Doug Ducey was expected to approve it. The Regular Session ends Saturday March 12 at midnight. Get the Daily News Digest in your inbox each morning. A starting correctional officer earns just over $35,000 a year before the 20% premium pay. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona Mirror. The merit raises are separate from cost of living increases sometimes approved by the Legislature. The Senate is adjourned until tomorrow, March 11, at 11 a.m. Giving taxpayers their money back, especially as inflation soars, is the only truly conservative action, she said but the Senate rejected two of her amendments to do that. Copyright 2021 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. Republicans had sought to let parents use the scholarships to cover the entirety of a private schools tuition instead of the 90% limit that has been in place since the program was created in the early 2000s. State law gives the board the autonomy to change employee classifications and pay plans. Deputy Chief Investment Officer. 2023 The Conneticut News Project. All rights reserved. Sen. Sean Bowie, a moderate Phoenix Democrat, joined with moderate Republican Sen. Paul Boyer to push for more school funding, noting that in all more than $1 billion in new school funding was in the plan, with more than half ongoing. PHOENIX (AP) Arizonas legislature approved a bipartisan $18 billion spending plan early Thursday that will make substantial investments in public schools, build new highways and pay down long-term debts. State workers get a 10% pay raise, the first across-the-board pay hike in more than a decade. We ask that you edit only for style or to shorten, provide proper attribution and link to our web site. While supporters backed raises for state employees and public safety workers as a recruitment tool, opponents questioned why raises for judges were necessary. There's another $1 billion dedicated to 53road projects, from a sound wall along the Loop 101 near 16th Streetin north Phoenix to an interchange where Loop 303 meets Interstate 17 to roundabout improvements in Prescott Valley. Two Arizona state senators announced Tuesday they would be stepping down from Democratic leadership roles, citing different reasons. The budget is not sound and its not reflective of my conservative values, Ugenti-Rita said. As part of House Bill 1, also known as the executive branch budget, state employees will receive an 8% across-the-board raise in the next fiscal year. WebRaise Corporate STO Cap by $2 M; Increase Individual STO cap by $250/$500 in FY 24 (2.0) (11.9) (13.0) 10 Expand Vets Property Tax Exemption to all Disability Levels (Savings in '24) (Separate Bill) Yes - see ADE Yes - see ADE Yes - see ADE 11: Eliminate State Equalization Tax Rate see ADE see ADE see ADE The Senate gave final approval Friday to a four-year package of raises for state employees that includes $3,500 in bonuses to help stem a surge in worker retirements. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Cities and counties in Arizona are also struggling to fill positions because of low pay, and Ducey said in his state of the state address last week that his 15% pay hike would make troopers the best paid officers in the state. 0. Theres plenty in the budget Ducey can brag about as accomplishments for his final year in office: The deposit into the rainy day fund, over $200 million for border security, raises for state employees and public safety workers. 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The governor this year proposed his first tax cut that would benefit low-income Arizonans, a state version of the earned income tax credit program. The cost of living in each state; She says Arizona normally offers 26 weeks of payments; about the same as other states. That includes $544 million for border security, roughly half of it for a wall, and $1 billion for highway construction, including widening Interstate 10 north of Casa Grande. GOP and Democratic leaders agreed to add $526 million in new ongoing funding for K-12 schools, a substantial increase from the GOP's initial proposal. Arizona lawmakers approve bipartisan $18 billion budget, Students ill after coming into contact with weed killer at Arizona elementary school, Fishermen find remains of missing man inside shark, New Funding Bridges Gap Between Communities, Prison, nonprofit and restaurant raise funds for underage DUI, drug programs, Car theft victims family speaks out after woman pleads guilty to murder. Even mail clerks at the states prisons are getting 20% premium pay. Have a story idea or tip? Subscribe to azcentral.com today. GOP leaders decided to just take the easy road out, the path of least resistance and give up and just spend, said Sen. Michelle Ugenti-Rita, a Scottsdale Republican who voted against the budget. State employees will get a raise, many for the first time in a decade. Arizona Department of Administration. Its not just line DPS troopers that are getting premium pay; dispatchers, crime lab technicians, radio repair staff and many others are getting premium pay, which ends on June 30. Certain occupations, such as corrections officers, Department of Child Safety case workers and highway patrol officers will get more on top of that. December 9, 2014 Leave a comment. Osten said the raises reflect the valuable work state employees provide daily, and particularly throughout the coronavirus pandemic. She noted that West Virginia recently granted state employees a 5% raise while Arizona bumped pay for its correction officers by 20% and for workers in many other departments by 10%. Some Republicans have said the hefty bonuses are only an election-year stunt from Lamont, a Democrat, to shore up his standing with his labor base. Kay Ivey approved of the step changes prior to the boards decision. Today were living in a post-COVID world, where employees and not employers are ruling the job market, said Sen. Cathy Osten, D-Sprague, co-chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee. Arizona state officials gave pay raises to 169 government workers without getting the required approval from the Department of State lawmakers worked overnight and passed a $15.6 billion budget in the early morning hours of June 23. It is unclear whether Gov. The latest Arizona headlines, national news events of the day + sports, weather, and traffic updates. Arizona Department of Administration. State law gives the board the autonomy to change employee classifications and pay plans. Hundreds of millions are set aside for water infrastructure as the state faces prolonged drought. GOP and Democratic leaders agreed to add $526 million in new ongoing funding for K-12 schools, a substantial increase from the GOPs initial proposal. For the latest local news, download the FOX 10 News app. Hundreds of millions are set aside for water infrastructure as the state faces prolonged drought. State employees will get a raise, many for the first time in a decade. Photo by Jerod MacDonald-Evoy | Arizona Mirror. It raises pay in January 2022 to $300 and raises employer premiums. GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX. The agreement would cost the state nearly $1.9 billion over four fiscal years, according to nonpartisan fiscal analysts. Using the money to provide premium pay for essential workers is allowed under terms of the virus relief law signed by the Democratic president last March. Every single budgets bad, Gray said. Republicans last year cut $1.7 billion in income taxes. Both measures will allow laid-off workers to take on more part-time work. Hundreds of millions are set aside for water infrastructure as the state faces prolonged drought. The budget has nearly $600 million in new, permanent funding for public schools, up from about $330 million in the original proposal. After losing support on the right, House Speaker Rusty Bowers and Senate President Karen Fann had to look elsewhere for votes, and they found them across the aisle. Duceys budget director, Matt Gress, informed the Republican Senate president and House speaker of his decision to tap the funds for premium pay in a Dec. 9 letter. WebDeputy Chief Investment Officer. by Jim Small, Arizona Mirror June 23, 2022. This is really just getting on a soap box and vilifying immigrants and creating a political point, Quezada said. It also eliminates the state equalization tax, a property tax for education, and backfills it with $330 million from the general fund. The Democratic-controlled Senate voted 22-13 along party lines to approve the contracts, which cover about 46,000 workers the bulk of the states workforce. Republicans last year cut $1.7 billion in income taxes. 0. There is ample evidence that this is a fair contract, a reasonable contract, an affordable contract, she said of Connecticuts wage hikes. Web2022 Top Companies; Morning Scoop. It was not a great situation," said Lisa Rowan, a consumer finance reporter with Forbes Advisor. In the House, fiscal conservatives railed against the new spending, particularly the money dedicated for highway construction projects. Also on Thursday evening, Senate made its way through its calendar, completing action on six additional bills and passing 11 others that will need to be finalized by the House. A separate bill giving locality pay was scrapped in favor of this bill. Arizona state employees get raises without needed OKs. Prior to joining CT Mirror Keith was State Capitol bureau chief for The Journal Inquirer of Manchester, a reporter for the Day of New London, and a former contributing writer to The New York Times. Ducey is seeking a permanent 15% raise for state troopers, 20% for juvenile and adult corrections employees and pay boosts for several other agencies that total nearly $250 million a year. That includes $544 million for border security, roughly half of it for a wall, and $1 billion for highway construction, including widening Interstate 10 north of Casa Grande. And it puts another $425 million in the rainy day fund to help the state weather a potential recession. The budget did include bipartisan measures for criminal justice reform, such as a revived measure that will create a new division within the Department of Public Safety to investigate use-of-force incidents and criminal misconduct by police officers. Reachreporter Mary Jo Pitzl atmaryjo.pitzl@arizonarepublic.comand follow her on Twitter@maryjpitzl. Bipartisan budget boosts school funding, state employee pay raises, transportation. AZ International Auto Show & New Car Buyer's Guide 2020 Model Year, Republican fighting over promises, big spending stalls Arizona budget plan as deadline looms, House vote puts Arizona on cusp of largest school voucher program in US, Theadditional inflation effects you should know, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Average annual pay before overtime for non-supervisors is just over $70,000. He brings strong watchdog sensibilities and creative storytelling skills to the Arizona Mirror. State lawmakers worked overnight and passed a $15.6 billion budget in the early morning hours of June 23. The bonuses, the GOP argued, are hardly the key to retaining workers, as the governor and other Democrats claim. I had a bill I really cared about that I wanted included in the budget, a tax cut for low-income working families, Bowie said. State lawmakers worked overnight and passed a $15.6 billion budget in the early morning hours of June 23. Ducey hailed the deal, saying his policies of limited spending and regulation cuts can be credited for the surplus, although massive federal COVID-19 relief money also was a major contributor. TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) - On Friday, Jan. 15, Arizona Gov. Expanding the court will give RepublicanGov. May 6, 2022 Updated May 7, 2022. The Lamont administration, labor leaders and other supporters of the increases have said they believe unions could have gotten even larger raises had they rejected the states offer and gone to arbitration. Public education gets a $1 billion increase, which could translate into higher teacher pay, physical improvements for crumbling school buildings and put more police officers in schools. Bipartisan budget boosts school funding, state employee pay raises, transportation. Last Name (Optional First Name with no comma), Arizona State Retirement System (employees), Public Safety Personnel Retirement System, Psychiatric Medical Program Administrator, Health Care Cost Containment System - AHCCCS. The added funding includes phasing in funding for low-income students starting at $50 million in the upcoming fiscal year and growing to $100 million in three years and special education. Left and right arrows move across top level links and expand / close menus in sub levels. But for me, its encouraging that we have actually come together.. "If you make a whole ton of money and you're on unemployment, the most you're going to get is $240 a week to be able to pay your bills," said Rowan. Republicans are widely expected to expand their majority in the 2022 election thanks to new district boundaries that appear to favor the GOP. WebDeputy Chief Investment Officer. | Terms of Service | Privacy Policy. These class-specific raises are in addition to the 3.25% raise and lump-sum payments and will also go into effect July 1, 2022 and be reflected on the July 25 paycheck. These class-specific raises are in addition to the 3.25% raise and lump-sum payments and will also go into effect July 1, 2022 and be reflected on the July 25 paycheck. It also eliminates the state equalization tax, a property tax for education, and backfills it with $330 million from the general fund. State workers get a 10% pay raise, the first across-the-board pay hike in more than a decade. The budget also makes a $1.1 billion deposit into the pension fund for public safety and corrections officers, paying off the states unfunded liability for future retirement benefits. Gov. Arizona's legislature approved a bipartisan $18 billion spending plan early Thursday that will make substantial investments in public schools, build new highways and pay down long-term debts. Arizona's legislature approved a bipartisan $18 billion spending plan early Thursday that will make substantial investments in public schools, build new highways and pay down long-term debts. All Rights Reserved. But Osten said the agreements are essential to maintain a state workforce that is at its smallest size since the 1950s, an argument Lamont has made as well. We ask that you edit only for style or to shorten, provide proper attribution and link to our web site. Over the last eight years, Arizona has made responsible decisions to live within our means, reduce burdensome government regulations and increase trust in our citizens and the result is a booming economy with record revenues. 0. Doug Ducey was expected to approve it. Web2022 Top Companies; Morning Scoop. I believe this is the best Democratic, bloated-full-of-pork budget that our money could have ever paid for, Rep. John Fillmore, R-Apache Junction, said in the early hours Thursday as he voted against the budget. That view was not shared by some of her Democratic colleagues. He pointed to officer pay in Texas and California, where rookie California Highway Patrol officers start at $93,000 a year. The cost of living, while going up, is still lower than in other areas. Tiny majorities in both chambers meant opposition from a single Republican lawmaker was enough to sink the budget if Democrats were united in opposition. A proposed expansion of a tax credit to subsidize private school tuition was removed from the must-pass budget, likely dooming it. Despite an eventual agreement on the budget, Democratic members tried but failed to introduce a number of amendments to budget bills to introduce a litany of policy changes such as, extending family and medical leave benefits, UPDATED Trumps fake electors: Heres the full list, How David Stevens is making Cochise County a 'laboratory', A GOP showdown over the debt limit could grip Congress and. FOX 10's Matt Galka reports. The agreements, which unions ratified earlier this spring, are retroactive to the start of this fiscal year, which began last July 1. 2021. Sen. Greg Albritton, R-Range, the Senate General Fund budget committee chairman, said he wasnt aware of the increases until after their approval. Updated: 6:21 AM MST June 23, 2022 State employees will get a raise, many for the first time in a decade. The budget is made up of 17 pieces of legislation and amounts to hundreds of pages. These class-specific raises are in addition to the 3.25% raise and lump-sum payments and will also go into effect July 1, 2022 and be reflected on the July 25 paycheck. The plan includes a handful of small, targeted tax cuts for farm machines and private planes but no large scale reductions. Both are leaving the Legislature after this year. The final budget adds about 20 staff members to his Border Strike Force within the Department of Public Safety, and the $200 million-plus for border security includes: $20 million for a jail in Cochise County, $10 million for the Arizona National Guard, $53 million to retain and hire sheriffs officers, $15 million to transport asylum seekers outside of Arizona, as well as other priorities. WebHeres an example of the formula to be used for a qualified retiree with 20 years of service at the time of retirement: $11.49 X 20 years of service = $229.80 annual PBI, divided by 12 months = $19.15 increase to monthly benefit payment. This proposed contract is a raw deal for the working people of this state, said Sen. Ryan Fazio, R-Greenwich, who noted state workers, on average, would receive more than $10,000 in total added compensation over four years. WebThe Arizona State Retirement System Board of Trustees announced Friday, November 12, 2021 that qualified retirees will receive a Permanent Benefit Increase (PBI) to their monthly annuities, beginning with their July 2022 benefit check. Arizona's legislature approved a bipartisan $18 billion spending plan early Thursday that will make substantial investments in public schools, build new highways and pay down long-term debts. A virtual reality experience is launching in Phoenix, allowing visitors to submerge themselves in history while touring the Anne Frank House. $225,000.05. Please see our republishing guidelines for use of photos and graphics. 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