From the August 6, 2018 School Board Special Meeting Agenda:
Personnel Committee
1. Review of Employee Exit Surveys (Pages 16-20)
From the September 17, 2018 School Board Business Meeting Agenda:
7. Presentations of Compensations Schedules (pages 16-22)
From the March 4, 2018 School Board Committee Meeting Agenda:
B. Personnel Committee
1. Presentations of Compensations Schedules (pages 20-26)
From the March 18, 2019 School Board Business Meeting Agenda:
III. Action and/or Discussion Items:
5. Motion to Approve New Compensation Schedules Beginning with the 2019-20 School Year and to Approve Adjustment Plan for Selected Staff (pages 7-8)
From the May 20, 2019 Board Business Meeting Agenda:
III. Action and/or Discussion Items:
7. Motion to Approve 2019-20 Tentative Agreement with the De Pere Education Association (pages 12-15)
8. Motion to Approve Salary Increases for District Support Personnel for the 2019-20 School Year (pages 16-17)
9. Motion to Approve Salary Increases for District Exempt and Administrative Staff for the 2019-20 School Year (page 18)
Since 2016 I have been asking someone at the district level to inform support staff of their raises. The typical fashion has been that one can expect to not hear a word of any results till it appear or doesn't appear on ones pay check. And creating a "Communications Director" position won't fix this.
Well after years of basically bitching about this, this is the first year they informed everyone. I'd almost say hooray, except that there was that much bureaucratic red tape for such a simple request and that is essentially an issue of basic human decency. So no hooray... Next time/ next issue should be a proactive thing where they, the guys making the big bucks think of this and take care of it, without anyone having to nag them to do it.
"Openness, accountability, and honesty define government transparency. In a free society, transparency is government's obligation to share information with citizens. It is at the heart of how citizens hold their public officials accountable."
In light of some board/adminstative actions in years past, you'd think these dunderheads would try to work on that transparency/trust thing.... nah.. they are too good for that.
And that is really what I see as an underlying problem to all of De Pere.
Report Card
Student: USDD
Communications: F-
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This seems to be a once in every 20 or so years sort of thing where they look into wages deeper than the annual rate approval. Sadly for support staff this yielded increases between 28 and 46 cents. And that high end position is only held by one person, the payroll person, so more like between 28 and 36 cents. Sadly most people learned this was happening from the newspaper, instead of from their own employer.
In my opinion this kind of raise is the level that should be regular, not the 20 year adjustment exception to the rule. It's inline with Green Bay and Manitowoc's raises in the last year.
