2008 Woodie Awards
Salary raises to Yuba College management
Pay raises during fiscal crunch
Leanne Garvin
Issue date: 5/10/04 Section: News
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In the midst of budget cuts, tuition increases and classified layoffs, the Yuba Community College District granted salary raises to classified supervisors, educational supervisors and administrators during the December 2003 and February 2004 Board meetings.
In December 2003 the Board of Trustees granted superintendent/President Nicki Harrington an annual salary of $156,598 to be effective January 1, 2004. According to page K-20 of the YCCD 2003-04 Final Budget, President Harrington was earning an annual salary of $140,785 before the Board decision. This meant she had earned a $15,813 raise, nine months after the same Board of Trustees had lain off 37.17 full-time equivalent classified employees.
On December 31, 2003, an Appeal Democrat opinion commentary listed several local issues that "weighed heavily on the minds of Yuba-Sutter residents" and noted Harrington's pay raise as one of them. The commentary stated, "While the local governments and schools reeled from the fiscal hardships imposed by the state's money crisis, the YCCD demonstrated astounding indifference to the crisis by awarding Nicki Harrington, Superintendent/President of the YCCD, a whopping pay boost."
Undeterred by the bad press, the Trustees, at the February 2004 Board meeting, implemented a Compensation Study that effectively granted pay raises to three Classified Supervisors, six Educational Supervisors and eight YCCD Administrators. No information could be found on how the adopted Compensation Study affected the salaries of Angela Fairchild, the Woodland Executive Dean who was approved for hire in November 2003, and Evelia Genera, the Woodland Associate Dean, a newly created administrative position, approved for hire in December 2003.
Of Administrators, President Harrington received the highest pay raise, making up almost 15 percent of the total amount allocated in pay raises by the Board between last December and this February. The raise to Harrington is $4,521 higher than the collective pay raises for all classified supervisors. Harrington's raise is also $5,343 higher than that of any other administrator, including Alan Lowe, Vice President of Instruction. Lowe received the second highest pay raise, at $10,470 more annually than he had been earning previously, according to a comparison of page K-20 of the YCCD 2003-04 Final Budget and the new Yuba College Management Association pay schedule as included in item 6-C of the February Board Agenda.
In December 2003 the Board of Trustees granted superintendent/President Nicki Harrington an annual salary of $156,598 to be effective January 1, 2004. According to page K-20 of the YCCD 2003-04 Final Budget, President Harrington was earning an annual salary of $140,785 before the Board decision. This meant she had earned a $15,813 raise, nine months after the same Board of Trustees had lain off 37.17 full-time equivalent classified employees.
On December 31, 2003, an Appeal Democrat opinion commentary listed several local issues that "weighed heavily on the minds of Yuba-Sutter residents" and noted Harrington's pay raise as one of them. The commentary stated, "While the local governments and schools reeled from the fiscal hardships imposed by the state's money crisis, the YCCD demonstrated astounding indifference to the crisis by awarding Nicki Harrington, Superintendent/President of the YCCD, a whopping pay boost."
Undeterred by the bad press, the Trustees, at the February 2004 Board meeting, implemented a Compensation Study that effectively granted pay raises to three Classified Supervisors, six Educational Supervisors and eight YCCD Administrators. No information could be found on how the adopted Compensation Study affected the salaries of Angela Fairchild, the Woodland Executive Dean who was approved for hire in November 2003, and Evelia Genera, the Woodland Associate Dean, a newly created administrative position, approved for hire in December 2003.
Of Administrators, President Harrington received the highest pay raise, making up almost 15 percent of the total amount allocated in pay raises by the Board between last December and this February. The raise to Harrington is $4,521 higher than the collective pay raises for all classified supervisors. Harrington's raise is also $5,343 higher than that of any other administrator, including Alan Lowe, Vice President of Instruction. Lowe received the second highest pay raise, at $10,470 more annually than he had been earning previously, according to a comparison of page K-20 of the YCCD 2003-04 Final Budget and the new Yuba College Management Association pay schedule as included in item 6-C of the February Board Agenda.
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