This past weekend when I posted the salary of McHenry County College President Vicky Smith, I wondered what the salaries of the school superintendents in McHenry County are.
A friend of McHenry County Blog did the research and sent me the information you see below:
Here are the salaries for the top educators in McHenry County schools.
Vicky Smith
The McHenry County College Board members who lost and retired left office last night, but not before two (the two who lost their elections) did their best to reward not quite three-year President Vicky Smith for her efforts.
If you want to know what happened at Thursday night’s meeting in the outgoing Board’s last gasp, plus the shift of power when the newly-elected Board members took office, you can read McHenry County Blog’s article here.
The old Board majority (with Ron Parrish and Dennis Adams in the minority) want to extend Smith’s contract and raise her salary.
They achieved half of that goal.
The contract was extended through June30, 2015.
But they didn’t get to raise her salary.
That question will be up to the newly reconstituted Board.
To start that discussion, I asked for the current salary of Smith.
MCC told me it is $204,867.
I don’t know if that makes her the highest paid public official in McHenry County, but it might.
If anyone finds a school superintendent with a higher salary, please tell readers in the comment section.
This full-page ad appears opposite the editorial page in Wednesday’s Northwest Herald. “I am just like you,” MCC President Vicky Smith is quoted saying.
Full-page, full-color.
One has to hand it to McHenry County College.
Vicky Smith begins her open letter telling how she has been MCC President for three years. She says she has a responsibility “to see our community continue to thrive.”
The Board is sparing no expense to provide “cover” for the extension of MCC President Vicky Smith’s contract by the old Board members on Thursday night at 6:30.
MCC President Vicky Smith talks about her passion about the college.
And cover those Board members need because three of them won’t be on the Board about ten minutes after they vote to hike her salary through June 30, 2015.
Vicky Smith talks about the need for “trust,” which requires input from the public. After she gets her raise she will meet monthly at “a community forum,” where questions can be asked. At Board meetings many questions are asked; virtually none are answered.
That’s seven months after the next gubernatorial election.
This is the bottom of the Vicky Smith self-promotion ad.
It’s over two months after two of the remaining Board members will have been up for re-election. They are Board President Mary Miller and Ron Parrish.
Miller is for the contract extension by the old Board; Parrish is not.
John Hammerand
It was not until ‘Member Comment” time that John Hammerand shared his findings about being overpaid.
He explained that the checks he had received since the County’s Fiscal Year began in December indicated that he would be paid $21,500 a year, while the resolution setting salaries provided for $21,000 a year.
Hammerand cited a County Board resolution passed on November 1, 2011, right before the filing for election.
It was presented to correct “a scrivener’s error,” according to the minutes.
Committee chairmen decided to set the annual amount at $21,000, up $12 from the highest paid County Board members in 2012, just to have an even number.
But the resolution passed in October said $21,500.
In a Northwest Herald article by Kevin Craver, Hammerand was described thusly:
“Calling Hammerand a taxpayer watchdog is an understatement – when it comes to opposing government spending, he’s more of a taxpayer tyrannosaurus.”
An email sent by recent University of Illinois at Springfield college graduate (who has a job) Melissa Sanchez. She interned in House Republican Leader Tom Cross’ office.
Melissa Sanchez
Dear Neighbors,
It has come to my attention that some constituents of Algonquin Township are under the impression that I already am an elected official, and voted to raise my own salary.
I am fiscally conservative, and have promised to not vote on any more pay raises for Township Trustees.
This is the exact opposite of the rumor that is being spread about my person.
I cannot say how ardently hurt I was to find out that rumors are being spread about my political title, as of right now I identify myself as a Republican, precinct committeewoman, and concerned citizen.
This smear campaign to confuse the vote of many should not and will not be tolerated.
I hope that the people who have started this clandestine rumor will come forward with an apology.
This is the first time I have ever sought public office in the state of Illinois.
I want constituents to know that this smear campaign is an attack on my campaign, and that of any person who has run for office and had lies told about them.
I encourage everyone to take advantage of early voting until the 23 of February, and to vote on February 26th.
I thank everyone for their support, and help during my campaign to change Algonquin Township for the better.
Every year state law requires the posting of salaries and fringe benefits exceeding $75,000 for those employees under the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund. McHenry County has done more than that. It has posted the compensation of all employees.
More tomorrow.
Every year state law requires the posting of salaries and fringe benefits exceeding $75,000 for those employees under the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund. McHenry County has done more than that. It has posted the compensation of all employees.
More tomorrow.
Every year state law requires the posting of salaries and fringe benefits exceeding $75,000 for those employees under the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund. McHenry County has done more than that. It has posted the compensation of all employees.
More tomorrow.
Every year state law requires the posting of salaries and fringe benefits exceeding $75,000 for those employees under the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund. McHenry County has done more than that. It has posted the compensation of all employees.
More tomorrow.
Every year state law requires the posting of salaries and fringe benefits exceeding $75,000 for those employees under the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund. McHenry County has done more than that. It has posted the compensation of all employees.
More tomorrow.
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