It's all in how you read it. Now this is a budget and us poets don't read this stuff none to well. I see the salary total for the Deputy Superintendent for FY 12 at $186, 127. Now that includes a clerical salary of $50,528. That is around the amount that they would have had to squeezed out of the budget if Dr. Latham would have got her wish last winter halfway through the year.
What areas would have been cut had that wish been granted? Maybe we would have just jammed some more students in some classrooms somewhere. Thankfully the DOC didn't get her way. Battle-lines were drawn. The position as approved. The MAYOR in a move reflecting her political wisdom suggested the job posting be sent back to committee for updating before posting. Once there forces were marshaled and a stalemate ensued. Sensing emotions were charged and they were, the mayor refused to vote, not wanting to get in the middle of what appeared to be a partisan battle, effectively killing the position.
By taking the high road, the mayor got to choose sides by not choosing sides. Have I said she is a smart lady? This move of political face saving saved LPS $200,000 this year and probably $100,00 last year. Just to remind you how the voting finally went down, voting for the addition of an extra Deputy Superintendent were PATTI CAPANO, JOHN FORD. AND VINNIE "GQ" SPIRITO and voting against posting the position were MARIA CARRASCO, RICK STARBARD, and DONNA COPPOLA.
By being politically coy, MAYOR KENNEDY saved LPS in the neighborhood of $300,000. Pretty nice neighborhood.
So we have to come up with a sporty nick name for Ford. Patty "Gotta Go" Capano and Vinnie "GQ" Spirito have such catchy ones, I feel that John Ford has been left out. Now I know what my husband says about Fords (the car, not the people) but it's not polite to repeat that kind of language in public.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you should hold a contest Stan?
I thought Maria voted for the position? Need to re-visit that Stanley! WOULD LIKE TO KNOW DID SHE VOTE IN FAVOR OF THE POSITION??? THAT'S WHAT THE PAPER SAID IF I'M RECALLING CORRECTLY!
ReplyDeleteYou are remembering correctly. Maria did initially vote for the position and if you check back on some of my old posts I called her out on that vote. When the mayor sent the job description back to sub-committee for tweaking, she ended up aligning herself with Coppola and Starbard on a revised job description that prevented unqualified FRIENDS from being slid into the position. The mayor refused to break the tie and voila the position could not be posted effectively killing the position.
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