$15K raise given to Montgomery Co. Public Schools’ superintendent

...Dan McHugh, of Concerned Taxpayers of Montgomery County, criticized the salary increase, calling it an example of “out-of-control spending” by county elected officials.

The school’s budget, McHugh said, represents half of Montgomery County’s total budget, and that money ought to be spent in other areas, such as teacher salaries and reducing class size.

“We need smaller classroom sizes, not giving raises to the top-level employees and administrators. That doesn’t fix any of the real problems. It just goes to show it’s business as usual in Montgomery County when it comes to spending in Montgomery County Public Schools,” he said.

http://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2017/09/montgomery-superintendent-raise/

Officials in Maryland's Montgomery County gave unionized workers — and themselves — big raises. Now they can't afford them.

Government-workforce politics have gotten very interesting in Maryland's Montgomery County, which includes a number of affluent Washington, D.C., suburbs. Unions are unhappy because their negotiated pay raises were unilaterally trimmed by the county council and because one council member has proposed changing the county's collective-bargaining laws in ways that don't sit well with labor. Meanwhile, homeowners are unhappy because of the biggest property-tax hike in seven years.
When you sort it all out, one-party government might just be a big part of the problem.
As chronicled in the Washington Post, the $5.3 billion budget the council approved in May included a nearly 9 percent property-tax hike that adds $326 annually to the average residential tax bill. The budget also increased a tax on recording real estate transactions that raises the cost of buying or selling a $500,000 house by $455....

http://www.governing.com/blogs/bfc/col-montgomery-county-maryland-self-inflicted-compensation-crisis.html

Kicking the Can Down the Road: Salary Increases Moved to 2018

“The contracts were returned to Leggett, who had 10 days to renegotiate them with the unions. He returned them to the council last week with the increases not cut but shifted nearly entirely toward the next fiscal year. Council staff said the move would result in just $115,485 to be paid in salary increases for fiscal 2017 but $6.8 million devoted to raises in 2018.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/md-politics/montgomery-council-citing-schools-needs-trims-raises-for-unionized-employees/2016/05/16/ecdc8428-1b5e-11e6-b6e0-c53b7ef63b45_story.html?hpid=hp_local-news_moco-budget-615pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

Tues @ 11:30 AM BOE Open Meeting on Superintendent's Contract

http://www.boarddocs.com/mabe/mcpsmd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=9TCMYL55B2F8

BOE meets in closed session Tues. at 10:35am to deliberate & get legal advice on future of school superintendent

Montgomery Cty (Md) school board meets in closed session tmrw at 10:35am to deliberate & get legal advice on future of school superintendent
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