Board of Aldermen Page 3
December 13, 2016
President McCarthy
It’s up to the Board.
MOTION CARRIED
PERIOD FOR PUBLIC COMMENT RELATIVE TO ITEMS EXPECTED TO BE ACTED UPON THIS EVENING
Mr. Fred Teeboom, 24 Cheyenne Drive
| want to comment on the teacher’s contract. The teacher’s contract represents $86.5 million for one year. It
represents a cost of about $1,000 for every citizen of Nashua. If you look at the details of this contract it
represents about $62,000 in salary cost average per teacher per year. It’s an $88,000 loaded cost; the
additional loaded cost represents 41% overhead, $26,000 additional per teacher per year. It represents
medical, dental, life insurance and retirement costs. Every teacher right now costs us $88,000 on average.
There is not too much complaining about the teacher’s contract except the teachers union and some of the
members of the school board saying that there was not adequate compensation, particularly that there was no
increase in the step schedules. Compare this contract to the $90,000 on the tax rate for charter schools. That
represents a $1.00 cost per citizen and not $1,000. The discussion about the teacher’s contract covered three
pages in the Budget Review Committee minutes of 28 November. The $90,000 item covered nine pages of
discussion, that’s pretty unbalanced. The $90,000 for the charter schools is not even in the budget, it’s a tax
offset. It appears in a tax calculation somewhere that you may or may not see but it does not appear in the
budget.
President McCarthy
Mr. Teeboom, you are commenting on the teacher's contract which is on the agenda...
Mr. Teeboom
| am also commenting on the...
President McCarthy
It’s not on the agenda and if you want to speak to it you can speak at the end of the meeting.
Mr. Teeboom
It is on the agenda because it’s part of the budget minutes that is before you.
President McCarthy
There is no action anticipated on it, you can speak on it at the end of the meeting in the second public
comment period if you like.
Mr. Teeboom
Are you not going to vote on the Budget Review Committee meeting minutes, isn’t that an action?
President McCarthy
Yes and comment at the first public comment period is reserved to resolutions and ordinances on which action
is expected to be taken. That resolution is not on the agenda.
