As I am certain Mr. Double is aware, or as he should be, SE Technical College and WSU are part of the MNSCU system which includes all technical college campuses as well as the state university system. Labor contracts for faculty and other bargaining units are not decided at individual campuses, but rather contracts are negotiated and settled for each state wide bargaining unit at a state level. In other words, no bargaining unit in Winona is able to decide itself whether or not to propose or accept wage freezes for their individual campuses. I do know that the IFO (interfaculty organization), the bargaining unit for faculty at the state univeristy system, has not yet begun its negotiations because MNSCU does not have its budget. Negotiating before MNSCU's budget has been set is futile and only protracts what is always a difficult, many-months long process, often extending beyond the life of the current contract. As a matter of fact, unless they have done so in the past few days, and I haven't yet heard, the legislature has yet to ratify a contract MNSCU settled with the IFO nearly a year ago. As I looked over my son's tuition bill recently, I would like to point out that the state's contribution toward tuition costs of full time students at Winona has fallen since last academic year. In other words, students have been responsible for an ever increasing percentage of their tuition, not to mention the very substantial cost of student fees (typically, full time students must come up with fees that reach nearly half the amount of their semester's tuition, in addition to tuition. This, of course, does not include housing, or books, which often cost in excess of $300/semester).
Terri Hyle
From: "Paul Double" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Online Democracy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FW: [Winona] Savings Information Request to local public bodies
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 13:04:59 -0600
[Winona Online Democracy]
Congratulations and thumbs up are in order for WAPS, Winona County and the
City of Winona for releasing the freeze dollar information to the media.
This two million dollars savings is the right step in the process of
analyzing proposals that may become reality. It also protect jobs verses
entire program cuts.
Now if Southeast Technical College and Winona State University will do the
same so that the impact can address if student tuition increases are
necessary.
At least now we can see the light of Day! Senator Day that is--------
Paul Double
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Thanks for the suggestion.
The Legislative Committee for Winona Area Public Schools has already
identified that, with the current budget situation, it would be a good
priority to identify unfunded mandates and request the legislature to remove
them -- as opposed to asking for more money. An email went out to all staff
earlier this week asking them to submit ideas for mandates they encounter in
the course of their work that they feel are unnecessary.
The district would certainly be open to any suggestions from those on this
list for mandates that could realistically be repealed.
-Steve Kranz
-Board Member, Winona Area Public Schools
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Subject: FW: [Winona] Savings Information Request to local public bodies
> [Winona Online Democracy]
>
> Local elected leaders are part of the solution.
>
> In the past almost every elected official has complained about state
> mandates and the impact on their budgets. This maybe the golden
opportunity
> to get rid of the mandates to offset lower tax revenue or has the cost of
> the mandates been a Trojan horse to throw out to the public as a way to
> blame another body for increased taxes and fees.
>
> As part of this discussion and assuming past statements have supporting
> facts what at the "five" top cost state mandates in "each unit of
> government" that they would recommend be eliminated and what would be the
> resulting annual savings be assuming the Governor and Legislature would
> approve elimination?
>
> Shouldn't proactive ways to reduce or freeze the cost of government
> supercede the local summit agenda on how to get or keep more of the
> taxpayers money?
>
> Could it be the job is too tough for nice people to handle?
>
> Paul B. Double
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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> _
> An off line question was asked about excessive pay for corporate heads and
a
> freeze for them ---
>
> Leaders, lead by example and the idea of those leading setting an example
> Would be good. Instead of a freeze excessive corporate salaries should
> be rolled back 5-10 % resulting in higher income taxes being paid by
> their employing corporations.
>
> Increased corporate profits should increase dividends for pension fund
> investors, individual investor dividend income and should also increases
> the value of their stock. While the tax collections may not yield
> increases (the corporate executive goes down, the corporation taxes go
> up, the pension fund is exempt and the increase stock value yields
> nothing until sold).
>
> The leadership model they would provide would reinforce the idea that
> controlling
> cost is as important and sometimes more important than as increasing
> sales or taxes. The reward for their co-workers is stable employment as
> well as
> providing their boss, the owners(stockholders) with a return on the
> capital that exceeds the risk afforded by parking their investments in
> Government Bonds, Bank CD's or stuffing it under the mattress.
>
> Paul Double
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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>
> >A. How much money would be saved by each local unit of government if a
> >salary freeze were implemented by the state for one year?
> >
> >B. If my memory serves me right, each one percent represents in WAPS
> >about $160,000
> > Assuming state aide to K-12 education stays the same what would
that
> >do the cash balances on hand one year later?
> >
> >C. Also the same question is asked for WSU and SE Technical and if
frozen
> >would there be any need for tuition increases?
> >
> >
> >Paul Double
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
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