Proposed CO Reorganization Plan

Brady Johnson’s proposed reorganization plan for the Central Office is now available on the I-SS web site as an item on the agenda for Monday’s School Board meeting. According to the plan the Central Office will be cut by 5% for 2010-2011 and this will be done with the elimination of seven positions and continued salary cuts of 2%. In addition the workload of the remaining central office staff will be adjusted and salary adjustments will be recommended for these staff members. Overall, this is supposed to save $201,000.

The new CO organizational chart is included in the plan. The following individuals were included on the previous organizational chart but are not included on the new one: Kris Earl, Judy Honeycutt, Mathew Fail, Linda Gillon, Brenda Clark, Linda Rogers, Carol McCrory, Doug Wooten, Rob Jackson, and Steve Hampton. The plan does not state if these individuals have resigned or retired, or have been reassigned, or terminated.

There are two additions to the organizational chart. Kelly Cooper is listed as Executive Director of Middle School Education/Rtl/504 and Tim Ivey is listed as Director of SLC Grant.

The reorganizational plan also includes a page that lists the additional duties assigned to a number of CO administrators. For example one of the extra duties assigned to Marty Moore is Speaking Engagements and Baldrige Training and one of the extra duties assigned to Dawn Creason is the BNQP Application. Does this mean that I-SS is going to apply for the Baldrige award again? I also find it interesting that one of the extra duties assigned to Dale Ellis is Staff Development yet Jed Stus is now listed as Executive Director of Staff Development & Training. Why is Staff Development an extra duty for Dale Ellis when Jed Stus will be doing the work?

The final page of the reorganization plan gives a listing of the duties and responsibilities for the Associate Supt. For Human Resources (Dr. Dale Ellis), the Executive Director for Staff Development (Jed Stus), and the Executive Director of Teacher Support (Bill Long).

It does look like Mr. Johnson is trying to streamline the CO administrative staff and that, of course, is a good thing. Is it too little, too late? Is it just a smoke screen to hide the true administrative agenda?

A few questions do come to mind at this time. How many, if any, of the individuals who were on the previous organizational chart but not on the new chart will still be employed by I-SS but with different assignments? What will be the amount of the salary adjustments for each of the individuals taking on additional duties? And, as many have asked before, why are raises (adjustments) being considered for administrative staff who take on additional duties while teachers are consistently asked to take on extra duties without any adjustments to their pay? I think the CO administrators are paid quite well as it is. Let them start earning that salary.

You can access the reorganization plan by clicking on the following link. (Note: For some reason at the time of this posting the following link and the link on the I-SS web site were not active. It is the link I originally used to access the plan. The link is working as of June 10th at 6:25 PM.)

Central Office Reorganizational Plan

I am also including the proposed CO reorganization plan below. (Note: As long as the previous organizational chart is readily available on the school web site, it can be seen by clicking on the image of the chart on the left side of this page.)

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Shifts in Personnel

At the School Board meeting this evening, Mr. Johnson stated that as he moved into the interim superintendent position it was required to make some shifts in personnel to be sure that all positions were covered. Mr. Johnson announced the following changes.

• Ron Hargrave becomes Interim Associate Superintendent of Operations.
• Dale Ellis becomes Inerim Associate Superintendent of Secondary Education.
• Bill Long becomes Interim Executive Director of Human Resources. (Mr. Long's previous position of Director of Recruitment and Retention would not be filled at this time.)
• Dr. Melanie Taylor becomes Interim Associate Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction and she will be running the Learning Division.
• Brenda Clark will be moving to the Race Street office to work with Mr. Johnson and Mr. Hargrave on several projects.
• Mr. Johnson also said that Melissa Bartlett would be leaving in September as her husband has accepted a new position and she would be moving with him to their new home.

Mr. Johnson went on to say that with these changes and the retirement of Steve Hill, I-SS would save about one hundred thousand dollars and redirect about seventy-five thousand dollars. What Mr. Johnson did not say is how this seventy-five thousand dollars was to be redirected. Perhaps some of these individuals received raises as they moved into their new positions. If so, it would probably more than offset the 2% furloughs that were put in place last month. Mr. Johnson did say that when the new superintendent is named, these people would go back to their old positions.