Following months of negotiations and an arbitration ruling from the state Public Employee Relations Board, the Board of Education has approved updated terms of employment with the Secretaries and Assistants Association of Anne Arundel County (SAAAAC) for the current fiscal year.
The terms for Unit IV employees, approved by the Board at its March 4, 2026, meeting, include:
a step increase for all eligible employees.
a 3 percent cost-of-living increase for all Unit IV employees.
extension of the term of the agreement between the Board of Education and SAAAAC through June 30, 2028. The agreement expired on June 30, 2025.
revision of language to require that full-time clerical, technical and secretarial employees assigned to schools be on duty on all days when the central offices are open except the days when schools are closed for pupils during the winter and spring breaks.
deletion of the allotment of up to two Code Blue Days that 12-month Unit IV school-based employees are not required to work.
requiring appropriate and professional interactions by Unit IV employees with students at all times.
The above changes are retroactive to July 1, 2025.