Edison Board of Mythomania's Merit Goals for Interim Super?!?

Well, as you can read in past blog posts about O'Malley's Merit Bonuses, not a big fan of the Board's 'Merit Bonuses' because the goals they use to set the bonuses are usually sophomoric and often less than substantive. 

Their qualitative goals are usually a hoot and just showing up for work will usually qualify. Throw in the fact that the Board mistakenly confuses giving bonuses for something that's part of the job you're hired to do - then you get the picture. 

Just sayin,' Merit Bonuses over there on Mythomania Lane - waste of taxpayer money and just a way to get around the Super Salary Cap.

Be that as it may, here's where you can see what the Board sent down to the County Super for approval of the Interims Merit Bonus for 2018-19 School Year. 

You can see the Interims Contract (signed in October, 2018) in the October 19, 2018 post.

It’s not that hard to figure out what the board did here. Looks like they simply took the max bonus 14.99% of his cap salary of $196,584 to get the $29,467.95. If history is any indication of the %’s used, then they used 3.33% for the quantitative goals and 2.5% for the qualitative goals. Assuming there are only 3 quantitative goals and 2 qualitative goals then the computer, language arts and math goals are each worth 3.33% of $196,584 or $6.546.25 and the referendum and security goals are each worth 2.50% of $196,584 or $4,914.60.

In sum, the quantitative goals are worth 9.99% of $196,584.00 or $19,638.75 and the qualitative goals are worth 5.0% or $9.829.20 - for a total of 14.99% or $29,467.95.

Of course, this raises questions about how these individual goals were weighed and where you draw the line between what’s part of the interim super’s job and what extraordinary effort rises to a level for a bonus. Arguably, like in the past, these merit goals seem more like a way to add to the salary cap rather than addressing the substantive issues facing the school district. 

So, that brings his total Salary and Bonus to $226,051.95 ($196,584.00 + 29,467.95) if he achieves all these goals in the time he has until June 30th.

Here's the numbers:

And here's the Merit Goals:

Anyhoo, it's just your money they're not adequately disclosing and informing you of in their December 2018 Action Meeting agenda.