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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd love a rundown of the cost of Syphax employees before and after Duran. It seems crazy how many positions he added but maybe it's actually not that much money. [/quote]

First, one of the earlier post has a list of positions. Secondly, don’t forget they will  cashing out tons of vacation days paid so that’s an additional cost.[/quote]

Those paid days should be first thing on the chopping block. [/quote]

how much money would that save? [/quote]

That’s easily in the millions.[/quote]

how about real numbers please? [/quote]

APS won’t put out numbers on it. [/quote]

I don’t work at APS, so this is just based on general budgeting/finance knowledge. If they are salaried employees there’s no direct incremental cost to extra holidays until the employee leaves and APS pays out unused vacation days that would have otherwise been burned. However, if the employees are less productive because they are working less, that cost can come through in the form of additional employees being needed or things just not getting done. [/quote]

Thanks for explaining this. Can we just please stop talking about Syphax employees vacation time please? There are soooo many actual important issues that impact kids, and this is not one of them. [/quote]

X1000. Thank you!![/quote]

Strongly disagree. It's a nightmare to deal with the central office as a school-based staff member, almost impossible to get a helpful response from anyone. So it affects morale and $ both.[/quote]

No one has shown this affects the budget. At all.[/quote]

So paying people for not working does not affect the budget?? It certainly affects the fiscal health of the school district.[/quote]

Y'all just need talking points to keep the chaos going. It does not have to be Syphax versus teachers. You have the same employer. [b]Yes, the 10 vs 12 month contracts are unfair but there's nothing that central staff can do to change that. You have to go to the VADOE for that.

[/b]Nobody has still said with any certainty how the holidays affect the budget aside from their own speculations and finger pointing.

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Not true. Duran made the paid holiday decision and he can undo it.[/quote]

Why does someone need to explain to you how three extra weeks’ of vacation for thousands of staff affect the budget, and operations?  You can’t see that?[/quote]

Because no one can put a number on it. It's just a few bitter people with an agenda. [/quote]

Not hard to do. Why won’t syphax do it? [/quote]
People are literally asking Duran to cut his own vacation days and those of all of those who work directly with him.  I think there would need to be significant pressure from the school board or journalists to get any momentum.  He's not going to change the policy unless forced and even then he'd likely adopt some compromise position to try to make everyone happy.[/quote]

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