The board heard not one but two presentations from Deb Lyons (perhaps the hardest working person in the district"?). The board agreed to not pursue recovery of the overpayments, considering the relatively small amounts involved, the fact that it was a district error and costs and effort to recoup. The error was brought to the administration's attention by one of the teacher.
The overpayments were the district's mistake: both the paychecks and the salary information sheet distributed to the teachers were incorrect. The problem relates to calculations of longevity as they were effected by a negotiated one time "step freeze" to salaries in the 90's. It was reported that a total of 45 teaching staff were overpaid a total of $27K over the last two years, and 8 retirees a total of about $4500. The second item was the overpayments made in the last two years to some of the teaching staff. Again we received an "unqualified opinion" -indicating a clean audit with no significant discrepancies or issues. The annual audit report from the firm of Rielly, Penner & Benton LLC. Two other financial items were on the table last night: Even so, the preliminary projections show a deficit that increases $700K to $1M each of the next five years, and unless a miracle occurs in the state budget process it will quite probably be worse. This year's preliminary model assumes zero enrollment growth and $200/year increase in the revenue cap - in all likelihood we will see a smaller increase. Although teachers will now write letters of recommendation they are continuing other aspects of the "work to the contract" job actionĪfter the remaining preliminaries, the board heard first from PMA financial consultants who perform a 5 year budget forecast for the district each year. Update: I misinterpreted Kevin's remarks above.
In the public appearances section of the meeting MGEA representative Kevin Mikelbank noted that in consideration of the status of the ongoing negotiations the teacher's union has suspended their "work to the contract" job action, and that teachers would now participate in activities such as writing student letters of recommendation.
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