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Monday, June 07, 2010
OUSD Board to try a third time to reduce own stipend
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OUSD Board to try a third time to reduce own stipend
Will the third time be the charm? The Orange Unified School Board will again try for the third time to reduce their own $750 stipends by 10% ($75.00) to $ 650 per month for an annual savings of $6,300. Board President John Ortega is the latest sponsor of the attempt on the June 10, 2010 OUSD Board Agenda as Action Item 12 D (Agenda page 13).
Two earlier attempts to reduce the OUSD Board stipends had been defeated. The first attempt to limit the stipend was proposed by Trustee Melissa Smith and co-sponsored by Trustees Kim Nichols and Kathy Moffat at the May 28, 2009 Board Meeting. The proposal prompted a sharp exchange of words between then Board President Rick Ledesma and Smith (see link below). After the proposal was defeated in a 3-3 tie when Ledesma, Ortega and Trustee Dr. Alexia Deligianni voted "NO" (Trustee Mark Wayland was absent), Smith, Nichols and Moffat all began donating 10% of their stipend back to the school district. Then at the August 20, 2009 meeting a 2% reduction of $15 in the OUSD stipend was again proposed, this time by Ledesma ally OUSD Trustee Dr. Alexia Deligianni. That proposal too was defeated on a 3-3 tie vote this time with Ortega absent and the votes reversed with Moffat, Nichols and Smith voting "NO" after noting that they were already donating 10% back and any Trustee could donate any portion of their stipend. The June 10 vote will again see a Trustee absent, but this time the absent Trustee Kim Nichols will be participating by teleconference from Memphis, Tennessee. Since the two proposed stipend reductions, all OUSD staff have agreed to pay cuts including OUSD Superintendent Dr. Renae Dreier.
On the same June 10, 2010 Agenda as the proposed Trustee cut, will be more OUSD staff pay cuts in the form of more work-day reductions with the school year being cut by 5 days and Leadership staff also reducing their work year by 5 unpaid days for a savings of $5.6 million. Agenda Action Item 12 A (page 5-9) is an agreement between the teacher’s union the Orange Unified Education Association and OUSD to cut the school year (and teacher’s pay) by 5 days (Agenda Item 12 E sets those days as 4 days at the beginning of school and one day after the November 11 holiday). Action Item 12 B cuts five days off of the Leadership calendar for the 2% pervious pay reduction (the last 2% pay cut did not include a reduction in days) and another 5 days for the current matching reduction of the teaching staff for a savings of $318,445. The reductions are scheduled to continue through the 2012-2013 school year.
Once again OUSD Superintendent Dr. Renae Dreier has also volunteered to amend her contract to reflect the 5 day cut in work and pay. In Agenda Item 12 C (page 12) Dreier asks for a Second Amendment of her contract to reflect the same cuts that the district staff is taking. The First Amendment to her contract was also at her request to take the 2% cut when all the other district employees took that initial cut.
For more information CLICK ON:
FIRST ATTEMPT
and
SECOND ATTEMPT
OUSD to pass a “Resolution of the Unknowns”
Also at their June 10, 2010 meeting the OUSD Board will vote on passing a Resolution 22-09-10 on the State Budget Crisis theoretically allowing the OUSD Board to reserve its right to make “salary adjustments” by declaring all salary schedules “indefinite”.
This type of resolution is passed by school districts around the state as an all encompassing attempt to inoculate the districts against Proposition 13 era rulings by the California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB), a quasi-judicial administrative agency charged with administering California’s collective bargaining laws for California’s public employees. Those 1979 rulings (based on federal precedent) reversed attempts to unilaterally rollback contractual wages by school districts after the passage of Proposition 13 tax cuts. The resulting pre-contract date resolutions passed on the advice of legal counsel have not been fully legally tested since the original PERB contractual rulings. (Consent Agenda Item 14 E page 44-46).
Inside the June 10 Agenda
Agenda Item 9 D (Agenda page 3) Celebrating Serrano Elementary School as a 2010 California Distinguished School.
Agenda Item 12 E – Approval of the 2010-2011 calendar- teachers will start Tuesday August 24, 2010 and students will start Wednesday August 25, 2010 and the last day will be Thursday June 16, 2011
Agenda Item 12 F ( Agenda page 16-34) a Public Hearing on how the Estimated Actuals for the 2010-2011 will be calculated
Inside the OUSD Community Donations
Crescent Primary PTA- $7.013 – computer lease; Fletcher PTA- $2,421- computers; Orange H.S. Baseball Boosters-$5,200 –salary stipends; Canyon H.S. Band Boosters-$6,945 – salary stipends; El Modena H.S. Baseball Boosters- $9,400- salary stipends; Villa Park HS ASB-$1,000- salary stipends; Fresh & Easy Company-$1,210- to La Veta E.S. for supplies
For a complete list of the $59,324 in community donations see Agenda pg 38
INSIDE the OUSD Budget
Total for Watched Tax Dollars approved in 2010: $ 385,000
2010 Attorney Fee Tally:
5/27/10 Dannis, Woliver & Kelley $ 30,000
5/27/10 Parker & Covert $ 55,000
5/27/10 Parker & Covert (to 6/11) $300,000
TOTAL $ 385,000
2010 TOTAL $ 385,000
Total for Watched Tax Dollars approved in 2009: $1,041,000
2009 Attorney Fee Tally:
11/13/08 Parker & Covert (for 1/09 -6/09) $ 200,000
3/12/09 Atkinson, Andelson, Loya (Sp. Ed) $ 50,000
3/12/09 Parker & Covert (Special Ed) $ 98,000
6/18/09 Parker & Covert (09-10) $ 400,000
6/18/09 Parker & Covert (Special Ed) $ 200,000
6/18/09 Parker & Covert (property) $ 55,000
6/18/09 Atkinson, Andelson, Loya (property)$ 35,000
Total $1,038,000
2009 Consultant/ Speaker Fee Tally:
01/24/09 Leadership Associates Consultants $ 3,000
2009 TOTAL $1,041,000
Total for Watched Tax Dollars approved in 2008: $901,200.00
Total for Watched Tax Dollars approved in 2007: $704,090.00*
Total for Watched Tax Dollars approved in 2006: $849,717.00*
* JUNE 8th, 2006 Trustees VOTE to Give OUSD Superintendent the power to
APPROVE OUSD Travel Requests taking this item OUT of the PUBLIC AGENDA
Total for Watched Tax Dollars approved in 2005: $978,300.00
Former Superintendent Godley’s Retirement Bonus running total (beginning 8/2008):
$25,130.00*
* The Godley Retirement Bonus presented here is an estimate of the amount in “bonus retirement” accrued since the Superintendent’s retirement on 6/30/08 using a 6% lifetime formula calculated here at $1210 a month since 8/08. The actual retirement plan the former OUSD Superintendent opted to take is not public information and the figures presented are only as an estimate of the taxpayer costs after the OUSD trustees voted against an amendment to exclude Godley from the retirement program. The on-going estimated figure is presented as a reminder to the community of the high cost in educational tax dollars the OUSD Board vote to allow the former Superintendent to participate in the 6% retirement incentive cost the OUSD education community in tax dollars. Godley retired from OUSD on June 30, 2008 after he worked for the school district for a little over five years.
NEXT BOARD MEETING: THURSDAY June 10, 2010 OUSD BOARD ROOM
For AGENDA-CLICK ON JUNE 10
CLOSED SESSION- 6:00 pm
OUSD Regular Session: 7:00 pm
For more information call the OUSD Superintendent’s office at 714-628-4040
For budgeting questions call Business Services at 714-628-4015
ORANGE Unified Schools INSIDE
Independent insight into OUSD
is an independent news service of /O/N/N/
a news service of Orange Net News /O/N/N/
Independent insight into OUSD
OUSD Board to try a third time to reduce own stipend
Will the third time be the charm? The Orange Unified School Board will again try for the third time to reduce their own $750 stipends by 10% ($75.00) to $ 650 per month for an annual savings of $6,300. Board President John Ortega is the latest sponsor of the attempt on the June 10, 2010 OUSD Board Agenda as Action Item 12 D (Agenda page 13).
Two earlier attempts to reduce the OUSD Board stipends had been defeated. The first attempt to limit the stipend was proposed by Trustee Melissa Smith and co-sponsored by Trustees Kim Nichols and Kathy Moffat at the May 28, 2009 Board Meeting. The proposal prompted a sharp exchange of words between then Board President Rick Ledesma and Smith (see link below). After the proposal was defeated in a 3-3 tie when Ledesma, Ortega and Trustee Dr. Alexia Deligianni voted "NO" (Trustee Mark Wayland was absent), Smith, Nichols and Moffat all began donating 10% of their stipend back to the school district. Then at the August 20, 2009 meeting a 2% reduction of $15 in the OUSD stipend was again proposed, this time by Ledesma ally OUSD Trustee Dr. Alexia Deligianni. That proposal too was defeated on a 3-3 tie vote this time with Ortega absent and the votes reversed with Moffat, Nichols and Smith voting "NO" after noting that they were already donating 10% back and any Trustee could donate any portion of their stipend. The June 10 vote will again see a Trustee absent, but this time the absent Trustee Kim Nichols will be participating by teleconference from Memphis, Tennessee. Since the two proposed stipend reductions, all OUSD staff have agreed to pay cuts including OUSD Superintendent Dr. Renae Dreier.
On the same June 10, 2010 Agenda as the proposed Trustee cut, will be more OUSD staff pay cuts in the form of more work-day reductions with the school year being cut by 5 days and Leadership staff also reducing their work year by 5 unpaid days for a savings of $5.6 million. Agenda Action Item 12 A (page 5-9) is an agreement between the teacher’s union the Orange Unified Education Association and OUSD to cut the school year (and teacher’s pay) by 5 days (Agenda Item 12 E sets those days as 4 days at the beginning of school and one day after the November 11 holiday). Action Item 12 B cuts five days off of the Leadership calendar for the 2% pervious pay reduction (the last 2% pay cut did not include a reduction in days) and another 5 days for the current matching reduction of the teaching staff for a savings of $318,445. The reductions are scheduled to continue through the 2012-2013 school year.
Once again OUSD Superintendent Dr. Renae Dreier has also volunteered to amend her contract to reflect the 5 day cut in work and pay. In Agenda Item 12 C (page 12) Dreier asks for a Second Amendment of her contract to reflect the same cuts that the district staff is taking. The First Amendment to her contract was also at her request to take the 2% cut when all the other district employees took that initial cut.
For more information CLICK ON:
FIRST ATTEMPT
and
SECOND ATTEMPT
OUSD to pass a “Resolution of the Unknowns”
Also at their June 10, 2010 meeting the OUSD Board will vote on passing a Resolution 22-09-10 on the State Budget Crisis theoretically allowing the OUSD Board to reserve its right to make “salary adjustments” by declaring all salary schedules “indefinite”.
This type of resolution is passed by school districts around the state as an all encompassing attempt to inoculate the districts against Proposition 13 era rulings by the California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB), a quasi-judicial administrative agency charged with administering California’s collective bargaining laws for California’s public employees. Those 1979 rulings (based on federal precedent) reversed attempts to unilaterally rollback contractual wages by school districts after the passage of Proposition 13 tax cuts. The resulting pre-contract date resolutions passed on the advice of legal counsel have not been fully legally tested since the original PERB contractual rulings. (Consent Agenda Item 14 E page 44-46).
Inside the June 10 Agenda
Agenda Item 9 D (Agenda page 3) Celebrating Serrano Elementary School as a 2010 California Distinguished School.
Agenda Item 12 E – Approval of the 2010-2011 calendar- teachers will start Tuesday August 24, 2010 and students will start Wednesday August 25, 2010 and the last day will be Thursday June 16, 2011
Agenda Item 12 F ( Agenda page 16-34) a Public Hearing on how the Estimated Actuals for the 2010-2011 will be calculated
Inside the OUSD Community Donations
Crescent Primary PTA- $7.013 – computer lease; Fletcher PTA- $2,421- computers; Orange H.S. Baseball Boosters-$5,200 –salary stipends; Canyon H.S. Band Boosters-$6,945 – salary stipends; El Modena H.S. Baseball Boosters- $9,400- salary stipends; Villa Park HS ASB-$1,000- salary stipends; Fresh & Easy Company-$1,210- to La Veta E.S. for supplies
For a complete list of the $59,324 in community donations see Agenda pg 38
INSIDE the OUSD Budget
Total for Watched Tax Dollars approved in 2010: $ 385,000
2010 Attorney Fee Tally:
5/27/10 Dannis, Woliver & Kelley $ 30,000
5/27/10 Parker & Covert $ 55,000
5/27/10 Parker & Covert (to 6/11) $300,000
TOTAL $ 385,000
2010 TOTAL $ 385,000
Total for Watched Tax Dollars approved in 2009: $1,041,000
2009 Attorney Fee Tally:
11/13/08 Parker & Covert (for 1/09 -6/09) $ 200,000
3/12/09 Atkinson, Andelson, Loya (Sp. Ed) $ 50,000
3/12/09 Parker & Covert (Special Ed) $ 98,000
6/18/09 Parker & Covert (09-10) $ 400,000
6/18/09 Parker & Covert (Special Ed) $ 200,000
6/18/09 Parker & Covert (property) $ 55,000
6/18/09 Atkinson, Andelson, Loya (property)$ 35,000
Total $1,038,000
2009 Consultant/ Speaker Fee Tally:
01/24/09 Leadership Associates Consultants $ 3,000
2009 TOTAL $1,041,000
Total for Watched Tax Dollars approved in 2008: $901,200.00
Total for Watched Tax Dollars approved in 2007: $704,090.00*
Total for Watched Tax Dollars approved in 2006: $849,717.00*
* JUNE 8th, 2006 Trustees VOTE to Give OUSD Superintendent the power to
APPROVE OUSD Travel Requests taking this item OUT of the PUBLIC AGENDA
Total for Watched Tax Dollars approved in 2005: $978,300.00
Former Superintendent Godley’s Retirement Bonus running total (beginning 8/2008):
$25,130.00*
* The Godley Retirement Bonus presented here is an estimate of the amount in “bonus retirement” accrued since the Superintendent’s retirement on 6/30/08 using a 6% lifetime formula calculated here at $1210 a month since 8/08. The actual retirement plan the former OUSD Superintendent opted to take is not public information and the figures presented are only as an estimate of the taxpayer costs after the OUSD trustees voted against an amendment to exclude Godley from the retirement program. The on-going estimated figure is presented as a reminder to the community of the high cost in educational tax dollars the OUSD Board vote to allow the former Superintendent to participate in the 6% retirement incentive cost the OUSD education community in tax dollars. Godley retired from OUSD on June 30, 2008 after he worked for the school district for a little over five years.
NEXT BOARD MEETING: THURSDAY June 10, 2010 OUSD BOARD ROOM
For AGENDA-CLICK ON JUNE 10
CLOSED SESSION- 6:00 pm
OUSD Regular Session: 7:00 pm
For more information call the OUSD Superintendent’s office at 714-628-4040
For budgeting questions call Business Services at 714-628-4015
ORANGE Unified Schools INSIDE
Independent insight into OUSD
is an independent news service of /O/N/N/
