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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Glass: BOE requires full-time status. They need to be paid more than $25K per year - it's not a living wage. A 2019 recommendation recommended $60 K.  We need the BOE to succeed in overseeing a $3.2 billion budget and we need adequate resources for this.[/quote]

I’m all for a full-time board if they also get the authority to determine the schools portion of the property tax. Then the council won’t be able to claim they’re funding schools when they’re actually raising taxes for something else and people will take BOE elections more seriously. [/quote]

That is not going to happen. It's not how local government in Maryland is structured. So does that mean you oppose a full-time board?[/quote]

We need a full-time board. The system is too big for having an early 20th century oversight system. This Beidleman mess was years in the making and it's going to take more than three months to turn this ship in the right direction with established checks and balances that hold over time.

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The biggest companies in the world don’t even have full-time boards. The board needs to establish policy and processes and ensure accountability when there’s noncompliance. [/quote]

The boards of the biggest companies in the world are paid millions via stock, whether owned or granted as compensation.  In tax-advantaged ways.  And professionally benefit from a round robin of board sitting by the executives they oversee.  And further enrich themselves by using their position to facilitate partnerships among those companies.

Should we be finding the average total compensation of board members of companies with operating and capital expenditures of around $5B and make that the proper BOE compensation?  Though nowhere near that of the largest companies, I'd venture it'd be far more than the full-time professional salary that others have suggested for BOE members.[/quote]

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