{"id":3467,"date":"2011-01-19T12:20:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T17:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3467"},"modified":"2011-01-19T12:20:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T17:20:08","slug":"when-did-the-school-board-give-themselves-a-raise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3467","title":{"rendered":"When did the School Board give themselves a raise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I looked up some old School Board stories on the DNT website I found this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No pay raise planned for Duluth School Board<br \/>\n&#8230;Board members with the exception of the chairperson earn 7,560 per year. &#8230;Last week Judy Seliga Punyko was voted the new chairwoman of the board. &#8230;The problem is considered a safety concern and was discovered during other roof repairs. &#8230;said Kerry Leider property and risk manager for the district. &#8230;Members are asked to authorize Superintendent Keith Dixon or Hanson to enter into a contract or a change order to &#8230;<br \/>\nTuesday, January, 11, 2011 &#8211; Duluth News Tribune &#8211; News<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I retired in 2004 the Board pay was about $5,450. I don&#8217;t ever recall hearing about their giving themselves a $2,000 pay raise.<\/p>\n<p>It was probably justified as a bonus for good work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I looked up some old School Board stories on the DNT website I found this: No pay raise planned for Duluth School Board&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467"}],"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=3467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}