I have some issues with a school board member being allowed to build up
this kind of debt to the district. As an employee of the school district, I
can tell you that when there's a "computer
glitch" with the payroll deductions like medical premiums from a teacher or
educational assistant's check, the money is recouped over the next few
paychecks. No other employees get special deals
to pay partial medical premium deductions. This fall the first payperiod for
educational assistants was only three days and yet the district took all
deductions from that check. Many ed. assts
ended up with checks for a few dollars and some others who's pay wouldn't cover
all deductions actually had them taken from the next check.
That $29,000 is money the district didn't have for other uses. $29,000 is
more than I make in a year(even if I work summer school), as an ed. asst. in
the district for 19 years. I'd rather
the money had gone toward something that helps students instead of carrying a
debt for a board member.
Buzzy Bohn
Folwell
Diane Wiley wrote:
> I agree that it needs to be cleared up, but who among us has an extra
> $30,000 laying around -- come on -- if you get paid what most of us get
> paid, you probably are spending most of it on living. diane wiley -- who
> does definitely NOT have an extra $30....
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> Of Tom Madden
> Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 1:35 PM
> To: 'Minneapolis Issues'
> Subject: Re: [Mpls] MPS "computer glitch"
>
> Thanks for the article Dan.
>
> Forget David Jennings. What about personal responsibility? If this were
> me, I would not let this stay unresolved for even a few months, let alone
> years. Settle up now. Get the benefit, pay for the benefit. Man, this
> stuff makes me angry.
>
> There is a large group of parents, city-wide and across most MPS schools
> that are working together to make positive changes in overcrowded classroom
> sizes, the achievement gap, the need for an actual increase in funding from
> the state/federal level and teacher stability.
>
> Meanwhile, the Board and Administration now get to be side tracked on
> something that should have been settled a couple years ago.
>
> One person can clear this up today. If it takes a credit card or two, so be
> it. That shouldn't be our (taxpayer, parent, administrative staff) problem.
>
> Tom Madden
> Lowry Hill
>
> On 11/11/05 6:46 AM, "Dan McGuire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > http://www.startribune.com/stories/1592/5720561.html
> > The minute that David Jennings found out about the error in billing,
> > it ceased being a "computer glitch" and became a top level management
> > problem of board compensation. How many other $30K problems did he let
> > go unresolved? $30k here, $30k there; it adds up.
> >
> > Dan McGuire
> > Ericsson
> >
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