The administration has finally posted, as required by law, the 'user friendly' version of the budget on the district's website. This document also requires the district to disclose the name, title, and current salary of the highest paid employees of the district. By comparing this year's information with prior year's (available from Data Universe, State DOE and other places); it is easy to calculate the amount of raises these individuals received in their 2008-2009 salaries.
Once you look at these numbers, you may not be surprised that they were willing to sacrifice this year's raise knowing that they were already well taken care of. Some interesting things to note in this information release:
Just 20 of the district's administrators received total salaries of $2,044,730 in 2007-2008 (an average of more than $102,000 each).
These twenty administrators received salary increases for 2008-2009 between 4% and 138% with the average salary increase weighing in at 11%.
These twenty administrators received total salary increases of $227,251 in 2008-2009 (an average of more than $11,000 each).
In addition to these generous salaries and increases, these twenty administrators are entitled to a total of 839 paid days off EACH YEAR. Yes, that is correct on average they EACH get 42 paid days off per year. That's more than EIGHT WEEKS of paid time off in addition to holidays and other occassions when the district offices are closed.
AND these twenty administrators ARE NOT principals, assistant principals, supervisors of instruction, department chairs or anything even remotely related to classroom instruction. These twenty administrators are management, finance, HR, and technology people. The same kind of people that are losing their jobs or seeing their pay cut in the private sector.
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The data for this report can be found under docs as EB 09-10 User Friendly. 2007-2008 data for the same people can be found by entering their names in the Data Universe application on the Home News website.
The administration has finally posted, as required by law, the 'user friendly' version of the budget on the district's website. This document also requires the district to disclose the name, title, and current salary of the highest paid employees of the district. By comparing this year's information with prior year's (available from Data Universe, State DOE and other places); it is easy to calculate the amount of raises these individuals received in their 2008-2009 salaries.
Once you look at these numbers, you may not be surprised that they were willing to sacrifice this year's raise knowing that they were already well taken care of. Some interesting things to note in this information release:
Just 20 of the district's administrators received total salaries of $2,044,730 in 2007-2008 (an average of more than $102,000 each).
These twenty administrators received salary increases for 2008-2009 between 4% and 138% with the average salary increase weighing in at 11%.
These twenty administrators received total salary increases of $227,251 in 2008-2009 (an average of more than $11,000 each).
In addition to these generous salaries and increases, these twenty administrators are entitled to a total of 839 paid days off EACH YEAR. Yes, that is correct on average they EACH get 42 paid days off per year. That's more than EIGHT WEEKS of paid time off in addition to holidays and other occassions when the district offices are closed.
AND these twenty administrators ARE NOT principals, assistant principals, supervisors of instruction, department chairs or anything even remotely related to classroom instruction. These twenty administrators are management, finance, HR, and technology people. The same kind of people that are losing their jobs or seeing their pay cut in the private sector.
CLICK ON TABLE FOR LARGER VIEW
The data for this report can be found under docs as EB 09-10 User Friendly. 2007-2008 data for the same people can be found by entering their names in the Data Universe application on the Home News website.
The salary listed for 07-08 is actually the salary for 06-07 so the % of increase you've listed is over a 2 year period not 1 year.
ReplyDeleteThe salary listed for 07-08 is actually the salary reported for 07-08. You are incorrect in stating that these increases are over a 2 year period. You can validate this by:
ReplyDelete1) comparing the Superintendent's salary increase against widely reported news from last summer. This salary did in fact go from $185k to $209k
2) Filing an OPRA request with the Public Schools to obtain the agenda items that were voted on in, probably May of 2007, that included the salary increases for these individuals for 07-08.
3) Filing an OPRA request with the Public Schools to obtain the name, title and salary of all school district employees for the 2007-2008 and 2008-2009 school years.
The data reported here is from public sources and can easily be verified. Feel free to post your own evidence to the contrary
Then you have my salary wrong and I can furnished the tax documents to prove it.
ReplyDeleteOne other thing, you posted a screen capture of ETTC with original artwork done by the webmaster. No permission was sought to put this on your site. Many people are under the impression that everything on the Web is public domain...it is not. Please check it out for yourself.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.benedict.com/Info/PublicDomain/PublicDomain.aspx
If your tax documents are wrong, perhaps then you have an issue with the administration and the fact that they are telling you one thing and reporting something else to the State Department of Education. This would not surprise me in the least.
ReplyDeleteI invite you to compare your salary with the documents available on this website or on the district's website or the NJ DOE website or the HNT DATA UNIVERSE website. Any discrepancies should be reported to those entities gathering and reporting the data to government regulators.
The purpose of this site is to simply make public documents available to the public simply.
If you would like to scan and email your tax documents to info@gottaxes.org, and they can be verified, we'd be happy to post them here.
While you may be correct that many people are under the impression that everything on the Web is public domain that is certainly not the impression held here. It is interesting that you provide www.benedict.com as your authoritative source. It appears that this website is operated by Benedict O'Mahoney of Foster City, CA - - not a name I recognize as an authority on Copyright Law.
I'd be happy to point you to the US Copyright Office, which indeed is the ultimate authoritative source for copyright issues. If you visit: http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html you will find:
One of the rights accorded to the owner of copyright is the right to reproduce or to authorize others to reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords. This right is subject to certain limitations found in sections 107 through 118 of the Copyright Act (title 17, U. S. Code). One of the more important limitations is the doctrine of “fair use.” Although fair use was not mentioned in the previous copyright law, the doctrine has developed through a substantial number of court decisions over the years. This doctrine has been codified in section 107 of the copyright law.
Section 107 contains a list of the various purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work may be considered “fair,” such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 also sets out four factors to be considered in determining whether or not a particular use is fair:
1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
2. the nature of the copyrighted work;
3. amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
Even a casual observer can easily come to the conclusion that while the original artwork on the ETTC screen capture may in fact be protected by copyright; it's use on this website falls clearly within the 'fair use doctrine' exeption allowed for under federal law.
I appreciate your taking the time to contribute to the ongoing efforts to GET THE FACTS. Please don't hesitate to comment further or invite your colleagues to contribute.
Indeed you were right on your salary and we apologize profusely. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
ReplyDeleteWe hope to see you back again soon.
Gottaxes, I guess you put the other side to rest. good job!
ReplyDeleteIsn't it odd to have letters go out at this time of the year and being so close to the end of school to verify ones residency? do you know if that is a common practice of the BOE? These type of documents being requested are typically asked for and presented in the enrollment period in the BEGINNING of the year. Another sign of wasted tax payer money and clearly harassment. It is a shame that direction is given to partake in such petty and immature events. I would have expected to hear better from adults especially ones making so much of our tax payers money.
Fair use not clearly...you have links to sites that are asking and/or selling promotional signs, therefore, Fair use becomes cloudly.
ReplyDelete(title 17, U. S. Code)This should be authority enough...
ReplyDeleteRegardless of your opinion and what links may exist to external sites. The use of potentially copyrighted material on this site unarguably falls under the fair use doctrine as outlined above.
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