By The Gazette Editorial Board — We’ve now heard the case for giving Linn County supervisors a 25 percent raise. And we’re not convinced. Supervisors Linda Langston and John Harris told us that the board’s 2008 decision to cut its pay to 80 percent of other county elected officials was meant to be temporary. [...]
continue »By The Gazette Editorial Board —- Increasingly, teacher unions nationwide are feeling heat from lawmakers and constituents to make concessions in their protections and tie their pay and continued employment to test results. That discussion also is getting more play in Iowa as the governor and his administration’s task forces prepare recommendations for consideration [...]
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Women outnumber men in Iowa’s state government, but earned a lower median salary last year. The new state salary database, released Thursday, includes nearly 60,000 employees with a combined payroll of $3.02 billion for the year that ended June 30. The state employed 32,788 women last year with a median salary of $45,675, compared [...]
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By Nick Smith —- If Iowans truly want to reform education, reform the system, not the educators. Teachers know they are employed in a career that demands everything they have to effectively teach today’s students. My reform proposal doesn’t have to cost a single penny — we already have the experts available within our [...]
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IOWA CITY — A University of Iowa vice president was the state’s second-highest paid employee last year, with a hefty retention bonus spiking his pay to nearly $1.3 million. UI head football coach Kirk Ferentz continues to be the state’s top earner at $3.875 million, according to the state salary database released Tuesday. Behind Ferentz [...]
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A split Iowa City school board has decided to give Superintendent Stephen Murley a 1.96 percent salary increase for this school year. The board voted 5-2 Tuesday night to boost Murley’s annual pay from $184,000 to $187,606. The other provisions and benefits in Murley’s three-year contract, which runs through June 2013, remain unchanged. That includes [...]
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UPDATE: State regents struggled with the idea of awarding raises to the university presidents this year, the board president said, but in the end they decided boosting the leaders’ salaries sends the right message. The presidents of Iowa’s three regent universities and two other regent institution executives will get 4 percent increases to their base [...]
continue »The University of Iowa incorrectly made 304 payroll overpayments totaling $572,300 in 2009-10, and total payroll overpayments outstanding as of June 30, 2010, totaled $883,300, a state audit shows. But the audit said it’s important to note that as of the release of the audit report on July 13, $758,024 of the $833,300 in salary overpayments [...]
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Cedar Rapids has beat the averages when it comes to recovery from the June 2008 flood, but businesses continue to fail and those failures may accelerate. That was the message Friday from Gary Ficken, chair of the Cedar Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce Small Business Flood Recovery Task Force to the Cedar Rapids City Council flood [...]
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A wind power industry group says Iowa could triple its output of wind power by 2020 and expand its wind power output sixfold by the year 2030. The Iowa Wind Energy Association announced Wednesday that it will support a goal of expanding the industry’s capacity from the current 3,670 megawatts of nameplate capacity to 10 [...]
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