Reality Checker brought up a good point about EPISD offering a $2,000 incentive to teachers who announce their retirement early. He/she compared the incentive to the $1,500 car allowance that our not qualified superintendent gets paid every month.
Are we that ugly? was an earlier post that explained what the superintendent is getting paid while he shows up late to meetings. I don’t think he is late because of his studying to get his superintendent’s certificate. The word I get is that he has fallen behind on those milestones too.
Comparing the allowances that he gets to the $2,000 incentive per teacher we can see:
- $1,500 per month for a car allowance
- $1,200 per month for home office costs
- $2,500 per month for incidental benefits, whatever those are.
- $35,000 for moving expenses
- $3,500 per month for housing while he is trying to find a suitable house
- $1,666 per month that the district pays into a special annuity for his retirement–it looks like this is in addition to his normal retirement.
- Costs associated with getting certified as a superintendent if he ever gets around to it.
- Priceless–the district will pay for his spouse to travel with him when he is out of town on district business.
Seventy eight retirees
The fixed allowances add up to over $13,000 dollars per month which works out annually to what they are willing to pay seventy eight souls to announce their retirement. These figures do not include anything for his sorely needed education or for his wife to travel with him.
His contract also requires the district to pay for his personal protection.
We deserve better
Brutus
elpasospeak 
I guess it is all part of that great American story that reminds us of the huge difference in compensation between the average worker (at whatever level or profession, the ones who actually do the work) and CEO’s, CFO’s, etc., etc., the ones at the top, who really do very little. It is ridiculous that these people get paid at such a vast level compared to everyone else.
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Cabrera does something. He goes to meetings. He reportedly told the El Paso Times that he did not have time to meet with representatives from a teachers organization regarding cutbacks because he is in meetings all the time. So he meets, but only with those who he considers worthy of his time. Teachers and teachers organizations are not worthy in his eyes.
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He is exactly what the Kids First El Paso-El Paso Times-Beto O’Rourke-Suzy Byrd-Dan Wever-Idiot Shapliegh crowd wanted. Now we are stuck with their mess and they are no where to be seen. Their silence through all of the budget cuts and other current troubles speaks volumes. It was never about the kids It was about a bunch of adults and a power grab, which they partially got. However, they also got this guy and the consultants and friends from out of town along with him.
Videos of the current board meetings show none of that crowd, who promised to make education the most important topic in El Paso, anywhere near the Boeing offices. Not a single parent that showed up storming the Boeing offices attends any meetings. And Eliot Shapliegh? When was the last time you heard him say anything about our new administration?
Hypocrites all. Every single one of them.
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Incredible! Some of those perks are absolutely wasteful. What benefit will the school receive for his spouse to travel with him? He’s supposed to going to do some work, not vacation. This will open the the door to misuse. He and his wife will select conferences that feature nice resorts.
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Cabrera’s fixed allowances listed by Brutus add up to $156,000 per year. That is nearly four times the annual median household income ($40,000) for El Paso and more than three times the median household income for Texas ($50,000). That doesn’t even include his salary and other compensation. The terms of his contract were negotiated and approved by a board of managers led by a self-proclaimed fiscal conservative.
Elected officials and government employees like school superintendents and city managers are now the privileged class with extraordinary pay, benefits, and perks, not to mention the gifts they can solicit and receive from special interests. Cabrera, a newcomer, is contractually immunized from any personal sacrifice, while terminating or pushing out people who have given much if not all of their lives to EPISD. His high salary and benefits are guaranteed for multiple years, regardless whether he performs. Most fiscal conservatives would call that entitlement. It definitely breeds an entitlement mindset.
You, too, have privileges. You get the privilege of paying higher taxes so these people can receive insane compensation.
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