Brutus, just wanted to show you these e-mails about the Superintendent’s 4% raise this July. Right after the board approved the teachers raise I sent his contract raise which was and is the same as the Teachers 4% of $348,825.51 which is over 13K. Notice in this e-mail Dori said he was forgoing this raise because of the raise he got in June.(15%-45K). They had an agenda item on the 2pm meeting that was removed by the Superintendent and I think the contract would have to be addressed if any changes are made. She already knew it the contract had been pulled by Cabrera I am told. I can find no record of any work on his contract and believe that he did get the 13K raise plus cashed in his extra vacation days by July 31 as required by policy. I asked Dori about it the next week but she was no longer president and did not even answer me. I also asked new president Hatch and he did not even respond. I have seen no other information about the contract.
Regards,
dw
On Friday, June 23, 2017 2:51 PM, Dan Wever <fwever1@att.net> wrote:
Dori, it is hard to be positive when you disagree with almost every action taken by the board. I tried to talk to you about K-8 and found a brick wall. You seem to have forgotten that educators spent hundreds of hours changing to middle school concept. Closing schools will not save the district any money unless you cut back on employees.
You know Dori the one area nobody ever seemed to check on concerning Garcia was what he did to the salary schedules for the administrators. They have been overpaid millions of dollars and that is the main reason there has not been enough money for the teachers. Dr Wachtel number crunched the teacher salaries for so many years and then he retires and you hire him back as a consultant to continue doing the same thing. Would you like to see some examples of what I am talking about the salaries? Speaking of salaries did Cabrera get his raise or not? I would think his contract would have to be amended and if you did not even look at it don’t see how it could be changed.
I cannot be positive when everything is going south as far as I can see. I guess the Education Reform people are happy as they got to take over a whole district. Regards,
dw
On Thursday, June 22, 2017 12:08 PM, DORI FENENBOCK <dfenenbock@episd.org> wrote:
You may get a better response with a more positive approach. You must remember the countless hours you spent selflessly on behalf of our children. We all do our best.
Every Student Prepared
On Jun 22, 2017, at 10:37 AM, Dan Wever <fwever1@att.net> wrote:
Since you guys seem to be very concerned with public opinion a good time would have been when you gave him the 15% raise.
“With this 15% raise the board of trustees and Superintendent Cabrera have agreed that he will not accept his contract raise for next year.”
It would not do anything for me, but there are a lot of ignorant people out there.
dw
On Wednesday, June 21, 2017 9:49 PM, DORI FENENBOCK <dfenenbock@episd.org> wrote:
When and where?
Every Student Prepared
On Jun 21, 2017, at 9:19 PM, Dan Wever <fwever1@att.net> wrote:
Why was this not reported before?
dw
On Wednesday, June 21, 2017 8:53 PM, DORI FENENBOCK <dfenenbock@episd.org> wrote:
Hi Dan,
You are partially correct. Although the Superintendent is contractually entitled to the same raise teacher’s get, he is forgoing it due to his increase in January.
Dori Fenenbock
Every Student Prepared
On Jun 21, 2017, at 8:47 PM, Dan Wever <fwever1@att.net> wrote:
Just a note, the superintendent got his 45K raise in January not June as the email says. People should understand that if any trustee wants to get anything done they need 3 more votes. One vote will not cut it at board meetings. I still do not know if he got the 13 thousand dollar raise in July and also do not know how many of the 10 extra vacation days he cashed in at the end of July. He gets over $1,500 each for them.
The EPISD entity is nothing but a bunch of robber barons at the administrative level. No better is the city in regard to the arena issue where they want the taxpayer to build a sports arena for Mountain Star. Time to revolt and STOP paying property taxes!!
The EPISD board seems more occupied with Cabrera’s salary and perks than they do with education. Ms Fenenbock’s arrogance means I will not be voting for her for Congress anytime soon.
Is there even one goddam elected voice for fiscal responsibility and transparency in this town? Or is it all just shovel the money to the Usual Suspects?
elpasospeak 
Dan – The EP Slimes should be interested in this story but they won’t be because Byrd, as a school trustee, did not stop the raise.
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Just a note, the superintendent got his 45K raise in January not June as the email says. People should understand that if any trustee wants to get anything done they need 3 more votes. One vote will not cut it at board meetings. I still do not know if he got the 13 thousand dollar raise in July and also do not know how many of the 10 extra vacation days he cashed in at the end of July. He gets over $1,500 each for them.
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Abandon Hope is right.
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The EPISD entity is nothing but a bunch of robber barons at the administrative level. No better is the city in regard to the arena issue where they want the taxpayer to build a sports arena for Mountain Star. Time to revolt and STOP paying property taxes!!
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The EPISD board seems more occupied with Cabrera’s salary and perks than they do with education. Ms Fenenbock’s arrogance means I will not be voting for her for Congress anytime soon.
Is there even one goddam elected voice for fiscal responsibility and transparency in this town? Or is it all just shovel the money to the Usual Suspects?
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Jerry – You even have to ask? It’s shovel the money to the Usual Suspects.
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