Wells v. Geneva County Board of Education

YATES, Judge.

Donald D. Wells, Jerry M. ’Whitaker, and John E. Williams were employed as principals with the Geneva County Board of Education. On June 7, 1990, they sought a declaratory judgment interpreting Ala. Acts 1988, Act No. 88-691, which mandated a 7.5% pay increase to certain employees of the public school system. The act provided that the pay increase was to begin “with the 1988-89 fiscal year and to continue thereaf*99ter.” The employees contend that because them employment contracts with the Board ran from July 1,1988, through June 30,1989, their raises should have taken effect in…