No pay raises given to PCS administrators

<p>In light of the myriad of recent cutbacks at local schools, some residents have become alarmed at rumors that Petaluma City Schools administrators received pay raises this academic year.</p><!-- Nothing to do. The paragraph has already been output --><p>Actually, PCS administrators received a pay cut this school year.</p><p>“The management team did receive a raise in November of the 2008-2009 school year as a partial catch-up to raises than had been provided to other bargaining units over the previous two years,” said Steve Bolman, PCS’ deputy superintendent of business and administration. “But the management, like all other employees, received a 1.62 reduction in pay for the 2009-2010 school year.”</p><p>Bolman told the Argus-Courier in June that from the 2006-2007 to 2008-2009 school years, administrators received a cumulative pay increase of 6.2 percent, while teachers were given a 7 percent hike and staff members with the California School Employees Association were given an 8.1 percent raise.</p><p>The across-the-board increase for management employees was retroactive to July 1, 2008. Administrators originally were to have received a pay increase in 2008-2009 that would have brought them up to the 7 percent level of the teachers’ increase over the three-year period, but the additional raise was put on hold, Bolman said.</p><p>Troy Sanderson, president of the PCS Board of Education, told the Argus-Courier in June that no raises were given in 2009-2010 because of large state cutbacks.</p><p>(Contact Dan Johnson at dan.johnson@arguscourier.com)</p>