Friday, April 30, 2010

The spiking of McClain's pension - in their own words

DEL MAR UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT
NOTICE OF SPECIAL BOARD MEETING
BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

February 24, 2010
3:00 pm
 
Del Mar Hills Academy
14085 Mango Drive
Del Mar, CA 92014

Full Agenda

Excerpted from the agenda:


February 24, 2010

To: Board Members
From: Comischell Rodriguez, President, Board of Trustees
Through: Dr. Sharon McClain, Superintendent
Subject: Agenda Item 10: Board Discussion/Approval, Contract between Sharon L. McClain, Ed.D and the DMUSD Board of Trustees

It has come to the Board's attention that district staff have been unable to implement a provision in Superintendent McClain's contract reported revised on June 17, 2009. The Board firmly believes that all District employees should receive prompt payment of all benefits.

To determine what the issues are, and what Board action may be necessary, the Board has placed a discussion of Superintendent McClain's current contract on the agenda. By law, any discussion about the contract must occur in open session. Through this discussion the Board hopes to clear up any issues related to implementing all provisions of the contract.

FISCAL IMPACT: Cost - Dena Whittington will be available to calculate the fiscal impact based on revisions to the original contract.
Program or Department - Unrestricted General Fund
Is this a Restricted Program? No
Was this expenditure anticipated in the adopted budget? Yes, budget for superintendent's total compensation based on original contract.
Will this Program or Department be over budget after this expenditure? No, if changes are within total compensation oforiginal contract.
RECOMMENDED: The Superintendent recommends the Board discuss and take any necessary action.

Below is audio from the February 24 public meeting. This is the full unedited audio from the DMUSD website in its entirety, the player resides on this site but the audio is being streamed from DMUSD's site. Alternately you can download the audio from the DMUSD site and listen to it in the player of your choice.

(3:32:42) Full unedited board meeting audio from dmusd.org

This is the exact wording of the contract amendment requested by Sharon McClain, as read by Katherine White at the Board meeting.

(01:21) Contract amendment read by Katherine White

This is Katherine White reading the letter Sharon McClain wrote to request the contract amendment.

(00:56) Request language

These are Dena Whittington's comments from the meeting where she discusses sending the amendment to CalSTRS and CalSTRS' response.

(01:34) Dena Whittington's comments

This is a compilation of Sharon McClain's comments during the discussion of her contract amendment.

(05:16)Sharon McClain's comments

This is a compilation of Board member comments regarding the reasons that they hadn't yet implemented the changes to Sharon McClain's contract.

(05:13) Board members explaining the delay in implementing the contract amendment

This is the public comment portion of the contract discussion segment.

(01:47) Public comment

This is an edited clip of the entire portion of the meeting where McClain's contract was discussed, edited only to remove long pauses, any other deletions, if any, are unintentional.

(31:42) Board meeting contract amendment discussion


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