5% increase for Director of Schools!!!!!!

There is much to talk about in the new proposed budget especially the submitted school budget for 2008-2009. For this thread I want to offer only one subject for discussion and that is the salary of the School Director. This year classroom teachers, the heroes of education, are once again getting the financial bamboozle while those in administration look down from the hill and say aren’t those worker ants just wonderful.

In the proposed budget approved by the School Board and the Budget Committee the School Director’s salary goes from $96,864.00 to $102,000.00 and increase of $5136.00 or just over 5%.

I asked the Director about this raise in the Budget Committee Meeting. His response was that he was not getting a pay raise. When I pressed the issue over the objections of Commissioner Holt the Director mumbled something about leave days, but did not complete the statement as Commissioner Holt, the Budget Chairman, would not allow the question to be repeated or the answer expressed.

The bottom line is this; Line item 72320 101 County Official/Administrative Officer reveals 2007/2008 Actual was $96,864.00 and the 2008/2009 Proposed Budget $102,000.00.
I hope teachers will be at the public hearing on the budget Monday 14 July and ask some question about this increase, and many of the other increases going to personnel but not classroom teachers or support personnel. Allen Barrett

Public Meeting Posponed

Due to uncontrolled inabilities or will to follow state law the public meeting scheduled for 7 July at 9 am to discuss the county budget has been postponed until 9 am on 14 July at the Pulaski Elementary School. All the other requirements are still in place, if you requested to speak you may want to re-submit your request just in case. If you have not yet requested permission to speak do so soon and come prepared to ask all the questions you have been asking your friends and neighbors. Allen Barrett