{"id":11961,"date":"2014-10-20T05:20:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T10:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=11961"},"modified":"2017-02-25T04:49:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T09:49:35","slug":"an-email-i-sent-to-the-school-board-and-supt-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=11961","title":{"rendered":"An email I sent to the School Board and Supt. this morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Board colleagues and Superintendent,<\/p>\n<p>I have been too preoccupied with the School Board&#8217;s quasi-legal investigation of our board colleague Art Johnston to read the teacher&#8217;s contract that was recently sent to us after its adoption last May. I did ask past Board member Rich Paulson to read through it for me to get his experienced eyes on the document. <\/p>\n<p>His email to me is as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi Guys,<\/p>\n<p>The chair &#038; clerk signed the contract on 4\/22\/14 but the board ratified on 5\/6\/14. It seems the contract was a done deal prior to board approval &#038; without any public comments.<br \/>\nPage 51 is a memorandum of understanding-ALC teacher work day\/week signed 10\/10\/13 by Supt. Gronseth &#038; DFT without any negotiations or board approval. These memorandums must all be negotiated because they are part of the contract.<br \/>\nPage 9 sick leave bank b needs to change from 1\/2 time to .6 time.<br \/>\nPage 10 jury duty g needs to change from 1\/2 time to .6 time.<br \/>\nPage 28 salary schedule &#038; regulations A-3 needs to change from 1\/2 time to .6 time &#038; A-4 same change.<br \/>\nI wonder if any impact with change on page 11 earned medical plan changed from Earned Medical Plan to Health Care Savings Plan? Also new language in C about daily rate of pay.<br \/>\nLastly I wonder how health ins. benefits were handle prior to to ratification 5\/6\/14 covering term from 7\/1\/13 relating to 1\/2 time vs .6 time?<br \/>\nHere are my observations on this contract which I hope you fellows can talk about at the<br \/>\nmtg 10\/20 if you think the public &#038; board should know. Any questions please call me or email me. I find if I speak on any of these items they do not get in paper but board members get printed.<br \/>\nKeep up your good work.<br \/>\nRich<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I have found it impossible to place items on the agenda that do not accord with the majority&#8217;s will and because Mr. Paulson&#8217;s analysis arrived too late to do so in any case I plan to raise the issues he asked at the end of the meeting during our time for questions. I did not want to catch our Administration ill prepared to deal with his concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Among the questions Mr. Paulson&#8217;s analysis leaves me with are these: <\/p>\n<p>Is it the responsibility of our legal negotiator to review and proofread the contract prior to its consideration by the School Board?<\/p>\n<p>If, as Mr. Paulson says, there are incorrect figures in the document are they made enforceable by the Board&#8217;s adoption even if they were mistakes?<\/p>\n<p>Should a Memorandum of Understanding be reviewed and acted upon by the Board or is the Superintendent and\/or his subordinate&#8217;s extended the authority by the School Board to act on them without Board approval?<\/p>\n<p>I would like some background and guidance from Administration on Mr. Paulson&#8217;s question concerning health insurance benefits and the Health Care Savings Plan.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, since our Board Chair and Clerk both signed the contract prior to the Board&#8217;s approval of same, I would like to know if that made the Board&#8217;s approval unnecessary. <\/p>\n<p>Respectfully,<\/p>\n<p>Harry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Board colleagues and Superintendent, I have been too preoccupied with the School Board&#8217;s quasi-legal investigation of our board colleague Art Johnston to read the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19828,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11961\/revisions\/19828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}