Danville District 118 has scheduled a special school board meeting for Monday, July 27th at 5:30 PM. The agenda includes scheduled increases for administrative salaries, along with non-union and flat salary employee salaries, which were tabled at the July 15th meeting. At that meeting, board member Christopher Easton made the motion for the salaries to be tabled, a motion that passed; with Easton calling for further discussion at the board’s next meeting.
Reviewing briefly, Easton at that time pointed to Interim Finance Director Todd Pence’s report that at the end of the district’s fiscal year on June 30th, District 118 had dropped to having just 46 days of normal day operational cash in their account. Although Pence conceded that a drop in that statistic is normal for the end of the fiscal year, before new funding comes in; to Easton it was too close for comfort.
AUDIO: All these people are working very hard, that’s true. But we don’t have a contract for automatic raises. When we talk about raises for these kinds of positions, we have to be sure we have the fiscal standing to issue raises. And I just don’t believe we do.
District 118 Board Member Christopher Easton (L) makes case at July 15th meeting for salary increases to be tabled.
One person who showed disagreement in his closing comments that night was Superintendent John Hart. He told CIMG afterwards that the financial picture for the district is coming into focus thanks to Pence’s hard work; and that without these workers whose raises were delayed, the whole situation would have been a lot worse.
AUDIO: We’ve asked people to make cuts. They’re doing it with less people, and we have a very deserving group of administrators, non-union employees, that are just like everybody else. Costs of things aren’t getting any cheaper. And, you know, the extra money does make a big deal. It’s a big deal to them; it’s a big deal to me.
Again, the Monday evening July 27th Special District 118 Board meeting is set for 5:30 PM.
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