So......at the meeting last night a vote was taken to EXTEND he contract of KEVIN MCHUGH, SCHOOL BUSINESS MANAGER until 2017. That was because the old contract will be up as of JUNE 30th and without an extention POOF the position goes away and there is no money to fund it. And since he is not likely to join me in the volunteer ranks, they decided to ust extend his current contract until such time as they can get down to the HARD (or should I say HARDLY) negotiations this measure will effectively tread our turbulent waters.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN TO YOU AND ME?
Maybe that will come more clear to you if I tell you what I think it means to him.
NO RAISE!
Well not exactly. You see, they do plan on bargaining in GOOD FAITH and all later, probably when things have calmed down a little. At that time when they come up with a NEW contract, it will supercede the old and any raises granted will be given RETRO and in a lump sum. You know how that works teachers, like the lump sum they owe you and PETER CARON, LYNN CFO said last meeting they don't know how they are going to pay you yours. What percentage was that anyway? I believe KEVIN got a 7% increase on his salary last time. Just sayin
ACCOUNTABILITY!
Again, not exactly. Yeah we'll know who to blame if things go wrong but they already have (NET SCHOOL SPENDING?) and he was at least partially to BLAME and insead of PUNISHING his apparent incompetence, we REWARD him with a THREE YEAR DEAL?
No surprise here! The city of Lynn and LPS would not be operating (or should I say suffering) like they are if competence was a requirement for many of the positions held. As far as accountability, most of the decision makers for our schools and city do not even know the meaning of the word. RAISE....now that's a word they know very well! Some other words they will soon know very well are LEVEL 4, FAILING, and LAYOFFS.
ReplyDeleteI say "You're Wrong!". I think it will be Level 5.
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