When was a time when the Charleston County School Board did not follow ex-Superintendent McGinley's recommendations like sheep?
June 2014:
What is a "rainy day"? Well, really, it's an emergency fund, so why not call it that?
Because the emergency in the case of the Charleston County School District came about through a consultant's study of administrative salaries that the CCSD Board of Trustees approved on Superintendent Nancy McGinley's recommendation.
The emergency? the bloated bureaucracy at the Taj Mahal needs to be paid more.
McGinley and Chief Financial Officer Michael Bobby have cloaked this raid on the emergency fund by allowing the ordinary step increase in teacher pay! Imagine that! What an innovation!
Still, 75 percent of the pay increases will accrue to administrative staff in the Taj.
You can't make this stuff up. In fact, the $7.4 million taken from the emergency fund (It's an emergency! These bureacrats might leave!) doesn't fully cover the $8.5 million for denizens of the Taj. And these are ongoing salary increases that only partially meet the recommendations of the consultant's study for salary increases.
Instead, dollars for low-income middle schools get the ax.
To complete the farce that purports to be a responsible school budget, the Board, again at McGinley's recommendation, voted to forgo taxes from two TIF districts, no doubt in order to please Mayor Riley. Certainly it is not in the best interest of CCSD to forgo tax dollars when it must raid emergency funds for ongoing salaries.
You can see where this is headed. Time for an outside audit.
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In the last five years teachers only received 2 step increases and No cost of living increase at all. All SC state employees received a bonus of 800. Teachers have that retirement plan and insurance and one would assume work for the state. No, says the SC Department of Ed they are only district employees and received no Bonus. I point out all in Columbia at the Dept of Ed received their bonus even the janitors!
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