The University and the Union agree, with the aid of the BMS, to meet over the life of the Contract (meetings to begin no later than the beginning of the second year of the Contract) for the express purpose of developing recommendations regarding salary steps, including (but not limited to) issues surrounding:

• Compression of steps
• Percent between steps
• Length of time to reach the top of the pay range
• When steps are effective
• How ranges are configured

The committee (as an LMC or as a Meet and Confer) would work on a wide range of topics, with the intent not targeted at the elimination of steps but to bring forward recommendations to the negotiations teams on all issues related to steps.