One person, three salaries at WBCSD

A few years ago our West Bonner County School District hired Jennifer Anselmo (then Phillips) as the full-time business manager. Her job description even states that she will “...devote full time...” to the business of the district.

Over the recent years this position has increased in salary to become $62,423 for the 2018-2019 school year. The problem is that in addition to her full time job as business manager, she is also contracted to be paid $8,500 to act as the school board secretary, and recently she obtained another contract job as human resource director for an additional $10,000. This makes her base salary (less benefits) a total of $80,923 and begs the question, why does she have so much free time that she can do these other job tasks? And if so, why wasn’t her contract modified to assign her these jobs in order to keep her on full time at her current pay? Written right into her contract job description is the ability for the school board to modify it and change it at any time! If Mrs. Anselmo has free time, the school board should have changed her job description, and/or reduced her business manager’s salary. But that is not what Chairman Sandy Brower negotiated with Superintendent Paul Anselmo (both of whom signed Mrs. Anselmo’s contracts). Our school district is flooded with levy money (as the annual financial reports indicate), so it seems it is just a matter of how to spend it all.

Vote “no” on the May 21 golden goose levy (just like you did on the March 12 levy).

GLENN ROHRER

Priest River