I recently requested and received the contracts and job descriptions of several Central Office administrators. I will be posting a number of contracts and job descriptions. I thought it would be appropriate to start with those of Mr. Johnson.
According to his contract, Mr. Johnson is receiving a yearly base annual salary of $160,000. I don’t think that this base salary is unreasonable considering the size of I-SS. (Note: This amount is about $10,000 less than what Dr. Holliday was receiving.) However, I do have to question the rationale for the additional compensation that Mr. Johnson receives.
In addition to paying his base salary, the School System also reimburses Mr. Johnson for his cost of Social Security, his contribution to the State Retirement System, and up to $5,000 for his participation in employer-offered cafeteria benefit plans. These cafeteria benefit plans include such things as vision, dental, and cancer insurance. These are benefits that other school employees must pay for themselves.
I don’t know the additional value of these benefits for Mr. Johnson but some time ago I determined that Dr. Holliday was receiving about $40,000 for these same benefits. I think that this is a way of hiding the actual compensation of the superintendent. The Board should be honest and just pay a reasonable base salary and let the superintendent pay for these other items just as other school employees must do.
I also have a question about one of the items listed on the Superintendent’s Job description under the section titled: MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS OR STANDARDS REQUIRED TO PERFORM ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS. In this section it states that the superintendent must be able to sit, stand, walk and drive a car. It seems to me that to require the superintendent to be able to sit, stand and walk is a clear violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. This requirement is also in the job descriptions of other I-SS Administrators.
Superintendent's Contract: (Click on an image to enlarge it.)
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ReplyDeleteI agree, I believe that could be a violation of the ADA. I feel that is ridiculous to have that requirement of anyone and still be an Equal Opportunity Employer. I also agree that the Superintendent should have to pay for his own benefits, extras or otherwise, just like everyone else.
ReplyDeleteIt would be interesting to compare the contracts of former superintendents and see how the contracts may have possibly (or not) changed in certain clauses of the contract from Super to Super - from Johnson - back to Holliday - back to the interim for Coleman - to Coleman - to Sinclair - to Register. Just a thought. And there should be nothing wrong with investigating this. Would one agree or disagree? The results may possibly (or not) be interesting if Mr. Klaene or anyone else would like to pursue this investigation. If one has the curiosity, time and is willing, than why not?
ReplyDeleteIt was reported by ron hargrave that there are 133 vehicles and 57 are driven home because these people are on call 24/7/365 WELL everyone driving a vehicle SHOULD BE required to live in Iredell!
ReplyDeleteWhy don't they publish the names of the 57 who drive cars home. Another piece of data, over a year, how often are these 57 people called on an emergency.
ReplyDelete57 people on call 24/7/365?? Hmmm, interesting. I can't imagine why 57 people would need to be on call all that time and for what purpose?? Interesting to find out.
ReplyDeleteThere is no reason for bus mechanics to drive their vehicles home during the summer months, because there are no buses on the roads then. I know of at least one bus mechanic (there are probably many more) who drives his tax-payer paid for truck home during the summer. This is the type of needless expense that should be done away with.
ReplyDeleteIf there is genuine interest in saving tax payer dollars, then an independent audit should be conducted to find and remove all superfluous use of tax payer funds.
Another point, everyone is always talking about how school systems should be run more like businesses...if that is what is desired, then there should be NO county-supplied cars to ANY ISS CO staff; let them be reimbursed in a mileage-based fashion for use of their own cars---this is how the most efficient businesses do it. It is archaic to supply cars in this day and age! Stop the gravy train---newsflash! our country is in the midst a double-dip recession!
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Our IF is one of the best things that has ever happened to our school. She is very professional and isn't afraid to help teachers/students. The problem - she has to attend so many IF meetings that keeps her away from our school. She is by far more helpful (and knows more about technology) than the tech person now assigned to our school YET our IF was told it's not her job to help with technology but the person assigned to our school who is never available - she also attends the IF mtgs-WHY??? Why can't our IF also be our tech person PLUS we have many classroom teachers who know more about technology than our tech person. SAVE funds for classroom teachers.
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