So I have been getting a lot of phone calls today about what the new super will make. According to the school board those negotiations are still ongoing.
My question is why would you announce a chosen candidate before the background check and negotiated salary? Well you wouldn’t. You don’t except a job offer if you don’t know what that job pays. Like, duh!
Currently Stavem makes $295K a year, the last record I could find for her when she worked in Lincoln, NE as an assistant super she made $205K in 2014. Like I said, she could be getting paid well north of $300K.
My educated guess is that a ‘number’ is already floating out there, and I’m guessing the background check is complete. You certainly would NOT be having a presser about your potential employee if that was not done.
So how soon will the public know those mysterious numbers before the School Board votes on it? Hopefully we get more than a 48 hour notice, but I am not holding my breath.
In other SFSD news I was told the other day that the school bond ballots have all been destroyed. They only have to hold them for 60 days after an election or longer if there is a challenge according to state law. The election was in September of 2018. We did challenge them, but they would not let us view OUR PROPERTY as a taxpayer and voter without paying school district employees watching over us. All we wanted to do was use a high speed scanner that we would supply to scan them and have an electronic copy so we could review them later, it probably would have taken an hour at most.
But I still find it strange that the ballots, which probably only took up one large office box, would be destroyed before all the bonds have been taken out and before the school has even been completed. More things that make us go hmmmmm.
300k+ is to much to pay given teachers in SD are lowest paid in the nation.
Huh, to answer your question: Probably after the school board election, huh?