YES 500
NO 407
The struggle to change the way the contracts are written will continue, let’s see if we can work to make a change by next year.
Daily Archives: May 31, 2012
NEVER SAY NEVER!!!!! Reply
We know how tough it is to vote down a Region One Budget. And we know there are some that will say we are against education. Well that is poppycock.
Spend the money on programs, and teachers and support staff. The administration in Region One is adequately paid, and its good money, no, make that great money as well.
Let them get new contracts as they should, when their current contract expires!
GET OUT THERE AND VOTE!!!!!! As we write this there are under four hours to go in the referendum. EVERY VOTE COUNTS! Please make yours count today.
And thanks for the great response…remember, this is not a path that is quickly traveled. So far we have a toe-hold, we are now looking for a foot-hold, but, we have made great progress this year. It will be a long process to get our Board Of Education and Administration to let us be the full partners we should be. We have only just begun.
From The Republican-American…Our administrative salary structure is MORE than adequate..VOTE NO! Reply
THOMASTON — The Board of Education at a special meeting Tuesday hired a new business manager.
Superintendent Lynda J. Mitchell said the board chose to hire Nancy O’Dea-Wyrick because of her broad experience in both municipal government and managing school districtsfinances. She will fill the position vacated by outgoing business manager Sue Laone, who is leaving to run the business office for Region 10 schools in Burlington.
O’Dea-Wyrick of Kent is a member of the Board of Finance there and has been business manager of school districts in Monore and Derby. She was most recently an interim business manager in a North Haven school district.
“She will be a great replacement for Sue,” Mitchell said. “She has an interesting balance between the whole community piece, leadership piece and education leadership piece.”
O’Dea-Wyrick, one of six candidates who was seeking the job, will be paid an $80,000 annual salary and will oversee the school’s $14 million budget. Laone, who was business manager for seven years was paid a little more than $90,000 last year.
O’Dea-Wyrick, who also served two terms on the Kent Board of Selectmen and Board of Education, said that experience will help her with her new job.
“I have got three perspectives beside the central office perspective,” she said. “I look forward to getting to know the people in the community and working with them.”