A Big Kudos to the Board of Mythomania!?!

To all my friends over there on Mythomania Lane - really appreciate the heads-up on the important things. But hey, guess what I got on Friday, December 7, 2012? The Collective Bargaining Agreements for the Certified, Non-Certified and Principal unions. You remember the teacher's contract, which was ratified by the ETEA on May 14, 2012, the Board on May 21, 2012 and Maeroff's take on these contracts in his "From the Desk of Gene Maeroff" on May 22, 2012 (here).

So, they finally made the contracts available to the public. Depending on how you look at it, it only took them 6.6 Months or 28 Weeks, or 199 Days or 4,776 Hours or 286,560 Minutes or 17,193,600 Seconds from the time Maeroff had his say on the contracts. But who's counting?

Good thing these contracts weren't important for the public to see in a timely manner. After all, we have Maeroff's take on how wonderful these contracts are for the people of Edison. They saved us millions according to him.

Now that I have the contracts. I'll take some time to go through them and I'm sure I'll have something to add to Maeroff's May 22, 2012 take on them - and don't think it will take me 6.6 Months or 28 Weeks, or 199 Days or 4,776 Hours or 286,560 Minutes or 17,193,600 Seconds depending on how you look at it - to do it.

But hey, at least we're comforted in the knowledge that sharing information and keeping the public informed in a timely manner is a priority over there on Mythomania Lane.

ETEA & P & S Contract Settlement Data

As you may or may not know, the collective bargaining agreements for the Edison Township Education Association (ETEA) and the Principal & Supervisor (P & S) unions have been settled a while ago. The new teachers' contract now runs from July 1, 2011 to June 30, 2014 or for three years. The P & S contract now runs out to 2014-15 because of the pay freeze they previously took.

You can read Board President Gene Maeroff's May 22nd take on these settlements here. Still on hold waiting for some documents and when received will share some thoughts about the settlements as well as Maeroff's take on them.

In the meantime, here's the summary data provided for the some 18 categories under the Certified and Non-Certified umbrella:

Dollar amounts over ETEA Contract Life by Category:

%'s increases over ETEA Contract Life:

And, if you're like me and don't like staring at columns & rows of numbers looking for what you want to see, here's an interactive Excel chart with everything in one place that you're welcome to have:

Here's the Summary data by Level for the P & S:

And here's the Summary data by Pay type:

This P & S data is also provided by person.

Next up, the ETEA & P & $ Guides & Scattergrams - a - mundo.