State Employees' Ass'n v. Board of Trustees of the University

The issue in this case is whether a legislative appropriation to the defendant trustees of “a sum sufficient to provide a salary increase of 7 percent for university system employees” mandated a 7 percent salary increase for all system employees. We hold that it did.

In 1978 the legislature, not having timely enacted a budget for fiscal years 1978 and 1979, passed a joint resolution making temporary appropriations to provide pay raises for State and university system employees. Laws 1978, ch. 2. It appropriated “to the trustees of the University of New Hampshire system a sum sufficient to…