Government roundup: Pay cuts for KHSD superintendents on tap
| Saturday, Oct 31 2009 03:44 PM
Last Updated Saturday, Oct 31 2009 03:44 PM
High-level officials in the Kern High School District may be taking pay cuts.
The KHSD Board of Trustees is scheduled to meet in closed session with labor negotiators Monday to discuss compensation reductions for each member of the district superintendency for 2010-2011.
Then the board's scheduled to approve the contract changes in open session.
District spokesman John Teves and board President Joel Heinrichs said they couldn't discuss the details of those possible pay decisions yet. The board agenda for Monday says they involve the compensation of the superintendent and associate superintendents of business, instruction and personnel.
This comes as there's been talk of cutting employee pay throughout the district by 5 percent.
Also Monday night, the KHSD board is scheduled to take public comment and vote on minor boundary changes in the southern and northeast areas of the district, which would take effect next year.
The closed session starts at 5:30 p.m., the open session at 7 p.m. The meeting is at KHSD offices, 5801 Sundale Ave. in Bakersfield.
- Government editor Christine Bedell
PEASE TO ANNOUNCE CANDIDACY
Republican Harold Pease of Taft, a longtime political science and history instructor at Taft College, plans to formally announce his candidacy for state Assembly 12:15 p.m. Monday in front of the Liberty Bell in downtown Bakersfield.
Pease plans to run for the 32nd Assembly District seat now held by Jean Fuller, R-Bakersfield. Fuller hasn't announced whether she will seek another two-year term.
Pease said in a news release he'd emphasize "the Constitution, limited government, fiscal responsibility and the benefits of the free market."
"We are losing our liberty in great gulps, and everyone knows it," he wrote. "I am bold enough to say it. We need our best people in the front lines. Those who can articulate our loss and show us how to get back our liberty."
Pease said local and state leaders of the Tea Party movement have encouraged him to run.
- Government editor Christine Bedell
CSUB DIVISION 1 UPDATE
During the first week of October, Cal State Bakersfield hosted a four-member NCAA peer review team as part of its year-long self study for Division I certification. The certification process is designed to ensure that intercollegiate athletics programs meet Division I standards.
Through the review team's review of documents and interviews with campus and community constituents, they ensure that our self-study report is accurate, that the self-study process engaged broad-based participation, and that any identified issues have been addressed. We anticipate receipt of the peer review team's report next week. We will provide to the NCAA a written response to the report in mid-December. In February 2010 the NCAA Committee on Athletics Certification will meet, and we expect to receive its final decision regarding our certification for Division I in April 2010.
- CSUB President Horace Mitchell's monthly campus update
