Administrators get 1.75 percent raise as revenues sink

School board OKs pay hikes negotiated inside and outside contracts

By Nancy Townsley

The Forest Grove News-Times, Jul 1, 2010, Updated Jul 1, 2010 (5 Reader comments)

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Forest Grove School Board members cut six days of school from next year’s calendar Monday night, saving a little over $1 million.

They also granted pay raises to 23 administrators and 11 other non-licensed managers at the district office that will cost about $57,392 in 2010-11.

The pay increases mean every licensed administrator in the district now makes more than $100,000 a year in salary and benefits.

Top earner Yvonne Curtis, who made $130,000 in 2009-10 during her first year as superintendent, will get $2,275 more next year. She works 261 days a year to earn her pay.

Communications director Connie Potter said every district employee — administrators, teachers, classified workers and supervisory/confidential staff members — will get a 1.75 percent pay hike, even though many are not covered by union-sanctioned contracts.

Potter, a non-contract employee who’ll get a $1,378 boost to $78,175, said teachers and classified employees conceded half of a scheduled 3.5 percent raise they negotiated for 2010-11 — and that administrators followed suit.

All employees gave up half their cost-of-living adjustment, said assistant superintendent Dave Willard, who’s getting a raise to $129,688. Teachers who were due to receive “STEP” raises for advances in experience or education agreed to forego half that amount, and every worker will lose six days’ pay because of calendar changes.

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