Joined: 17 Mar 2005
Posts: 21
Location: LOWESLAND
| Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 12:05 pm Post subject: Salaries | |
| I've been reading a lot of the forums and somewhere I read about how much a group of people make and of course how rediclous the pay is. Here in Ohio (Summit County) the school board just announced some pay raises. 6 members of the school board will be makeing $100,000 plus per year. Then after that announcement they had the gall to announce that they will be putting the schools back on the ballet for another levy or else they will have to fire some teachers and close some schools. Personally, I'm voteing the levy down. If we pay the school taxes now so 6 people can make $100,000 plus per year, then we are paying way too much in taxes and they are spending the money in the wrong places. I'd like to see the school board replaced and salaries capped at $50,000 per year. I'm sure they can make a living at $50,000 since I'm scratching a living at $20,000. | |
Administrator
Joined: 30 Jun 2003
Posts: 1010
Location: over yonder
| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 11:38 am Post subject: | |
| That would be a good opportunity for the community to stand up and demand either a wage rollback or the board members resignations. | |
Joined: 06 Jul 2003
Posts: 7090
Location: Central CA
| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 3:51 pm Post subject: | |
|
Bear, your case is typical of many small boards and agencies here in CA. More is spent on administration than on the function the entity was formed to oversee. Go to your next school board meeting and ask them publicly how much they're spending per child on actual education (not administration) and break that $600k down by the number of kids and see how much it would add to the true function of the school.
Also, demand an accounting of how many hours per year they spend on school board business. Last time I was on a board we met for an hour once a week. that's roughly 50 hours a year. (We weren't paid  ) $100k divided by 50 is $2000 an hour. Those people better be working full flipping time for that district and even then they couldn't justify anywhere near that big a dip from taxpayer money.
|
|
Joined: 04 Jul 2003
Posts: 64
Location: Canada
| Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 6:20 am Post subject: | |
|
I guess when it's public money, employee salaries are subject to more scrutiny. This is no where near the injustice that occurs on the corporate level, and yet it creates more of an outrage than the compensation of the person who runs the company you work for(assuming it is a private company). I guess it boils down to it being your money in the case of public affairs versus it potentially being your money in the case of private enterprise. When it's money coming out of your pocket it affects you more than if it's money just not getting into your pocket.
-NAz |
|