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#1 VillageIdiot

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Posted 01 July 2015 - 06:49 PM

Seriously????????? I can (mostly) understand the increases for the teachers and non-credentialed employees but $245k is an insane amount of money to pay a K-12 superintendent.  And WTF is with a $7k car and technology allowance.  The board of education is seriously misguided in its priorities and clueless as to what's going on in the district.

 

 

The superintendent of the Folsom Cordova Unified School District will receive a $24,269 salary boost starting Wednesday.

 
The increase for Deborah Bettencourt approved this month reflects a combination of two raises: one retroactive to July 1, 2014, plus a shift of $7,200 in existing annual car and technology allowances to her base pay. The changes increase her annual salary from $221,500 to $245,769, counting the conversion of allowances to pay.
 
District officials said the retroactive increase to base pay is 5 percent. An additional 2.5 percent takes effect Wednesday, the start of the new academic and fiscal year. The boosts are in line with raises also approved for the district’s more than 2,000 part-time and full-time employees. Combined, all of the district pay increases are costing the general fund $6.3 million over two years.
 
The raises were negotiated largely on behalf of three labor groups: the Folsom Cordova Education Association, which represents 932 credentialed employees; Chapter No. 528 of the California School Employees, which represents 999 workers, including maintenance, transportation and clerical employees; and the Folsom Cordova Leadership Association, which represents the 94 management workers.
 
District spokesman Daniel Thigpen said the decision to shift the $7,200 in car and technology allowances to base pay will have no immediate effect on Bettencourt’s pension benefits, since that allowance already was subject to California State Teachers’ Retirement System contributions and already counted toward her pension benefits.
 
Board members approved Bettencourt’s contract on June 18.
 
“I think Debbie has done an amazing job,” Board President Teresa Stanley said. “One of the reasons the board brought her in as superintendent is because we were having difficult financial times.”
 
Bettencourt, hired in 1997 as the district’s chief business officer, became superintendent in 2010.
 
 

 

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#2 The Average Joe

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Posted 01 July 2015 - 06:52 PM

Aren't you glad you knuckleheads just voted for ANOTHER school bond issue? Rolling perks into baseline pay is a blatant pension padding procedure. And seriously, a 7k car allowance with a quarter million dollar a year pay? Um, ok. I wonder why our classrooms always need supplies.... Just wait until we're paying 200k a year for her pension...


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Posted 01 July 2015 - 07:59 PM

It's all for the kids right?!?!?!



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Posted 01 July 2015 - 08:20 PM

It's all for the kids right?!?!?!

 

The what?!?!!?

 

Perhaps we're jumping the gun and she'll donate the $24k to the FC schools foundation or some other worthy cause.  Naaaah.

 

Where are the STRS pension-spiking police when we need them?  Not even sure how she qualifies for STRS since she's only held a now-expired adult education credential and has never taught a single day in a K-12 classroom.  According to the CTC's website she only has a "Certificate of Clearance" which is seemingly meaningless per http://www.ctc.ca.go...t-of-clear.html



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Posted 01 July 2015 - 08:34 PM

The CFO, Rhonda Crawford, received a $20,000 raise. Interesting how both raises were approved in the summer and not at a board meeting during the school year.

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Posted 01 July 2015 - 08:42 PM

The CFO, Rhonda Crawford, received a $20,000 raise. Interesting how both raises were approved in the summer and not at a board meeting during the school year.

Ah yes, and so it goes for the rest of the brain trust on the 4th floor.  



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Posted 01 July 2015 - 08:50 PM

If the salary were "only" $120K per year, don't you think they'd have lots of qualified applicants? These salaries for admin  are getting out of hand.  How do you think the teacher feel?

 



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Posted 01 July 2015 - 09:49 PM

If the salary were "only" $120K per year, don't you think they'd have lots of qualified applicants? These salaries for admin  are getting out of hand.  How do you think the teacher feel?

 

 

I'm sure they are all afraid to really speak their mind because they'd risk losing (although firing a teacher is nearly impossible) whatever penance pension they have coming right?



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Posted 01 July 2015 - 11:35 PM

If the salary were "only" $120K per year, don't you think they'd have lots of qualified applicants? These salaries for admin  are getting out of hand.  How do you think the teacher feel?

 

This lady has ABSOLUTELY NO TEACHING EXPERIENCE! The board waived the requirement she have teaching experience and hold an administrative credential. She fought hard against a salary increase for teachers. 



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Posted 02 July 2015 - 08:55 AM

Are there any entities left in the civic/government arena that haven't been corrupted??

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Posted 02 July 2015 - 10:31 AM

What else is new, this activity has been going on for years, take from the classroom and give to teacher and Administrator salaries and other frivolous, unnecessary expenditures.



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Posted 02 July 2015 - 10:37 AM

Transparent California is showing $255,629.80, which includes the car allowance of $7,200 and $26.929.72 total benefits.

 

It is kind of surreal that the governor's salary of the whole state of California is $173,987.



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Posted 02 July 2015 - 01:06 PM

Yep, and worth every penny...  :P


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Posted 02 July 2015 - 01:37 PM

Teresa Stanley loves her.  Teresa ran for school board to be an advocate for the kids.  I don't know what happened to her way of thinking over the years.



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Posted 02 July 2015 - 06:32 PM

Yep, and worth every penny...  :P

 

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