I have asked a number of times about the perks and the inability to cut from the top down in regards to the school district,yet suprisingly no one from the district responds and most folks who pay for the system don't seem to question where the money outside the schools go.With four kids in mpls schools I have to ask again,what are the perks for top administrators at 807 and how many supervisors are there at 807? I sat at lunch the other day and listened to two employees from 807 talking shop one was wondering how the district could afford to send four people to New Zealand on fact finding, and why were some depts. staffed with more supervisors than workers? I don't know the folks talking and have no idea if anything they said was true but I do know that the district has a diversity officer who is payed over eighty thousand dollars a year for part time work. The have a legal dept also which could handle any diversity questions. Why is there a car allowance given to over ten administrators,and are they still given free health club benefits? Why are there retired principals working at 807 at a rate of four hundred dollars a day? If any of this is wrong please show me but until the district has put its own house in order(and I would say an order that the public understands and accepts) we should leave the schools monies where they are and close more of 807 and surrounding admin offices. Dain Lyngstad phillips/edina --- Dan McGuire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A couple of other things that don't make sense about > the mid-year budget cuts: > > It sounds like the schools are being asked to > take a per pupil currently enrolled cut (although > the exact formula is > not in the WCCO story, nor is it available from > anyone I've talked in the schools.) In other words, > the cuts don't > correspond to the number of students that are not > enrolled that were projected to be enrolled at that > school. Which then > suggests that the cuts are due simply to bad > budgeting. We should expect a better performance at > hitting the numbers. > > The other big question mark is, how is the > budget being reworked before the contract with the > teachers is signed, or > has it been signed and nobody is talking about it? > > Dan McGuire > Ericsson > > > > > > REMINDERS: > 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the > list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing > it on the list. > 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. > > For state and national discussions see: > http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html > For external forums, see: > http://e-democracy.org/mninteract > ________________________________ > > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic > Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
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