I don't understand how the District is so bad at the most basic function - paying your employees on time and the right amount. It demonstrates an absolute lack of competency and if I was on the Board, I'd be losing my mind over this. The Citizens of Evanston give this District $150 million bucks and they can't even pay the staff properly…
I don't understand how the District is so bad at the most basic function - paying your employees on time and the right amount. It demonstrates an absolute lack of competency and if I was on the Board, I'd be losing my mind over this. The Citizens of Evanston give this District $150 million bucks and they can't even pay the staff properly. Insane.
I reached out to the company that runs the system for comment because I haven't been able to find another District with the same outage this week. More to come.
Not one member of the board has any financial background. All of them are in the education industry or are consultants for education, not a single board member has any other skill set. Angela Blaising would have been phenomenal on the board and would have held the administration to task as she was a CFO, but she was raked through the mud. I just can’t believe with 60%+ of our taxes going to the school districts there isn’t ANY oversight and more Evanstonians aren’t outraged.
This isn't even a financial thing, this is like someone should be reading the Superintendent the riot act at the Board Meeting. Missing payrolls is *serious fucking business* and every taxpayer, regardless of your politics should be completely outraged at this. Employees could miss rent payments, miss court payments, get late fees from banks, miss insurance payments, etc. The absolute bare minimum we should be doing is making sure our public servants get a check on time.
If I was on the Board, I would make the Superintendent testify to what happened here in public and get her gaurantee that the problem won't happen again and if it does, there have to be consequences! The Superintendent works for YOU not the other way around.
I don't understand how the District is so bad at the most basic function - paying your employees on time and the right amount. It demonstrates an absolute lack of competency and if I was on the Board, I'd be losing my mind over this. The Citizens of Evanston give this District $150 million bucks and they can't even pay the staff properly. Insane.
I reached out to the company that runs the system for comment because I haven't been able to find another District with the same outage this week. More to come.
Not one member of the board has any financial background. All of them are in the education industry or are consultants for education, not a single board member has any other skill set. Angela Blaising would have been phenomenal on the board and would have held the administration to task as she was a CFO, but she was raked through the mud. I just can’t believe with 60%+ of our taxes going to the school districts there isn’t ANY oversight and more Evanstonians aren’t outraged.
This isn't even a financial thing, this is like someone should be reading the Superintendent the riot act at the Board Meeting. Missing payrolls is *serious fucking business* and every taxpayer, regardless of your politics should be completely outraged at this. Employees could miss rent payments, miss court payments, get late fees from banks, miss insurance payments, etc. The absolute bare minimum we should be doing is making sure our public servants get a check on time.
If I was on the Board, I would make the Superintendent testify to what happened here in public and get her gaurantee that the problem won't happen again and if it does, there have to be consequences! The Superintendent works for YOU not the other way around.