{"id":802713,"date":"2020-01-02T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=376753"},"modified":"2020-01-02T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T21:30:00","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-new-compensation-philosophy-needed-at-school-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-new-compensation-philosophy-needed-at-school-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: New \u2018compensation philosophy\u2019 needed at school district"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/06\/LettersWebCard-SDN1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>I won\u2019t say \u201cI told you so,\u201d but I did. During last November\u2019s Amendment 4A pork barrel bacchanal, I wrote several letters to the editor warning of the nebulous language in most of them. The worst offender by far was the school district money grab.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote, \u201c4A is a permanent extension of a mill levy for kindergarten passed in 2007. Once again, it tugs at your heart strings until you read further. This one is especially deceptive as it talks of money to attract teachers and enhance counseling and mental health programs. The exact language states, \u201cTo be deposited in the general fund and used for educational purposes but not limited to \u2026\u201d This is nothing more than an outright spending increase to be used however the school district wishes.<\/p>\n<p>The Summit County Education Association co-presidents had a letter in the Dec. 24 issue of the Summit Daily News. \u201cThe teacher team asked the district to be creative with the allocation of this money as it was earmarked for recruitment and retention of teachers and staff. Teachers made the choice to vote no (83%) to the proposed $1,240 raise. The use of \u201ccompensation philosophy\u201d will result in a 2% raise for support staff and administration. Teachers and staff do not see recruitment or retention issues at our administrative building in Frisco.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Summit School District, during a five-hour negotiation session refused to budge from the use of the \u201ccompensation philosophy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Is this why we voted to extend this mill levy for recruitment and retention of teachers and staff? I didn\u2019t. Going forward, I will only vote for additional school district taxes that are specifically and irrevocably tied to a specific purpose. This is proof that open-ended tax bills don\u2019t work. I hope you\u2019ve had enough of bait-and-switch as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-new-compensation-philosophy-needed-at-school-district\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I won\u2019t say \u201cI told you so,\u201d but I did. During last November\u2019s Amendment 4A pork barrel bacchanal, I wrote several letters to the editor warning of the nebulous language in most of them. The worst offender by far was the school district money grab. I wrote, \u201c4A is a permanent extension of a mill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-802713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-29 13:32:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}