Saturday, February 19, 2011

D-156 pay outrage

What is first in the sights of a new watchdog group in McHenry County? It's the referendum on the April 5 ballot regarding McHenry (High) School District 156. If this group and this issue don't get traction in McHenry County, are the residents brain-dead?

The first issue (for many) is the size of this school district. Many of you already know. How big is this school district? Ten schools? Five? Three? Two.....  Two schools! Only two schools. Two high schools.

Wait until you see the hand-out being distributed by McHenry Citizens Taxwatch. Be sure to get one!

Check out the Top 20 Teacher and Administrator annual salaries at D-156 for 2009. They range from $162,786 down to $100,105.

The average annual salary is $112,144
Teachers work 180 days per year
The "average person" works 240 days per year
These top 20 average $623/DAY earnings.

This new watchdog group will also help you learn just how rich the retirement pay scheme is for D-156 teachers and administrators.

For more information, be sure to attend the townhall meeting on March 13, 2011, at 1:00PM. Tax fighter Jim Tobin is the keynote speaker. Visit http://www.mchenrycitizenstaxwatch.org/  N.B., the website is .org (The organization is aware of the error on its signs, and a .com domain will be established to facilitate access to the new website.)

Maybe this new group should be represented with residents from every school district in McHenry County!

1 comment:

Kristin Ottolino said...

No worries. The referendum will fail and will continue to fail each time they bring in a new referendum to the school districts in Marengo. The taxpayers are sick and tired of the mismanagement of money in a small town with 4 schools separated into 3 school districts. The three superintendents for a 4 school town are administrators who are are overpaid, overstaffed, and meanwhile the children suffer. They may try over and over but I assure you, they will get nowhere. Soon the new consolidation will forced on them. It's about time and personally I can't wait.