Superintendent Liggins Agrees to a 10% Pay Cut ...

 

He announced this to the paper, days after firing close to 300 employees over budget issues, rather than before -  leading us all to believe he didn't make this decision until after all the backlash, or he would've told us that before all the firings (or should have).

The school reported to the LHL today that is base pay with benefits is $381,000, but prior articles with the LH, and elsewhere, have been more. 

He says it's a cut to his base pay rather than benefits, but I'm curious about that - because last I heard from a credible source, he initially refused to cut his pay at all, then agreed to 1 concession - giving up his "life-coach" benefit worth around $25K+.

But let's say it's his base pay, which the article says is about $275K. That's still only about $25,000 dollars off his base salary  - and we're still in the hole by a couple million now? 

Come on, now, Dr. Liggins -  you know you could still do very well here in Lexington on even $150K per year.

However - that figure told to me of a concession of $25K+ for a life coach is grossly in the in the ballpark of 10% - so is that concessation on top of the 10% base pay cut or it IS the cut, just not from base pay?

For more info on the history here, read a few posts below.

Once again, we initially supported Dr. Liggins and wanted to believe all the backlash was simply racism and bigotry - until we were confronted with absolute proof he'd overspent on travel and personal luxury items.

Essentially, he's the black LGBTQ version of Trump - which makes it triply disappointing.

Meaning using social media for perception control, refusal to take personal responsibility/blaming everyone else, and hiring/refusing to fire unqualified crony hires - often MAGA people in leadership.

Essentially, it doesn't matter if you're truly qualified for a leadership position, he will hire/keep anyone willing to look the other way  ro him and/or help him hide the bodies - and course, the type of people with a proven track record of willingness to do that for personal gain are mostly Trump people in leadership, clearly.  😂

(No -  not really, about the bury bodies part - just a figure of speech. 😂)

Esentially