Barrington Enlightened Taxpayers Association

The purposes of BETA are to seek to foster enlightened government and improved education, library and park facilities by serving in a constructive role to eliminate waste, and supporting those expenditures that are perceived to be cost/benefit effective. It will promote the common good and health, safety and quality of life of residents in the Barrington area. BETA will provide financial and operational oversight for the taxing bodies that impact the Barrington area.

Sunday, February 1, 2009

BETA Calls on the CUSD 220 School Board to Take Action

Reduce spending and enact scrupulous expense control .

Reduce compensation expenses and growth in teaching staff. Freezing salaries for teachers may be appropriate in the early years of the new contract.

Examine the cost of teacher benefits and bring line with corporate America practices:

The Board pays for a Dental program for the teacher (page 47 CUSD220/BEA contract)
The Board pays 100% of individual coverage and 50% of dependent coverage for medical (page 47)
The Board pays for Life Insurance coverage of $35,000 (page 47)
District provides for the full cost of long-term-disability coverage (page 46)
In corporate America, employees share in the cost of these benefits or do not have them at all

Abate the growth in teacher counts and effect staffing reductions as appropriate.

Aggressively reevaluate Work Rules to assure that they are not driving up staffing needs unnecessarily.

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