BoardDocs Fails Again...or was it an IO Error?

You know what IO means...right?
Sun Prairie School District BoardDocs site

Why is it that we spend all this money (on BoardDocs) and it seems to fail on us quite frequently? Is it the software? The firmware? Or the peopleware?  Aren't we supposed to have a highly tech-savvy staff?  Surely they could create a website that works better---and more cosistently.  Regardless, once again the district fails to have transparent mechanism for the general public to see what shenanigans are at play.

We DID catch the agenda before it went down, and we find it pretty shameful that there is no mention of the annual meeting on the agenda. Shouldn't that be an agenda item for discussion two weeks out? Maybe to share with the public key points of what they will hear?

And here's another burning question: Surely the Annual Meeting Booklets have gone to print by now. So...why isn't a PDF copy available NOW on the website?

You know this district folks....when the news isn't good, they wait until the 11th hour to release it.

Second Verse...Same as the First

We received this from a resident who either attended or caught the video re-run of the recent budget hearing held on June 21st. Enjoy.

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All indications are that the district spent this year doing the same thing they did last year—motivating the “wrong” people to show up to the October meeting. Between now and October it appears that they will overpay for a pool manager. Though it is difficult for most people to evaluate the wisdom of most expenditures made by the district, each of us has a pretty good idea of what a pool manager should make. If someone really cares, they could do a job search and find out what pool managers are making these days.

What they would find is that Milwaukee YMCA is hiring a manager for aquatic facilities at 2 locations, with a budget of more than a half million dollars and responsibility to about 10,000 members. They are hiring this individual in the $38k-44k range. Further searches show that that is about average nationwide for the position (a position less complicated than the one we need to fill).

On June 14th, the school board unanimously approved spending $51,250

to fill a pool manager position that pays 20% less everywhere else in the world. Since this is a number that is pretty easy to evaluate, it serves as a proxy for how smart they are being with our money. If they are being that careless with that money, they are probably overpaying other places too. Actions like this will make the October meeting a tough one for board members.

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SP-EYE's take. We agree with what this resident presents. However, one teensey weensy little fact makes up for the apparent discrepancy in the hiring salary. You see...our Pool Manager (sorry...we're not falling for the touchy feely, use-big-words-to-justify-an-exorbitant-salary trick) will be an employee of a school district (ours). School districts are the Exxon-Mobils of the education game. Recession proof. Big Pay. Oh... and the CEOs cost us a fortune.