`confused' 
Timing For 
An Opening 
Film Writers -- This One Included -- Prattle On About This Time Of Year Being 
A Busy Movie Season. Yet With One Blip Of An Exception, No New Movies Opened 
In Northeastern Pennsylvania Today.

Anne Cesare 
Nov. 29, 1993 
Anne Cesare, Of Moscow, Died Monday In Moses Taylor Hospital, Scranton.

By JIM VAN NOSTRAND; Times Leader Staff Writer
 Thursday, December 02, 1993 &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Page: 1 &amp; 14A QUICK WORDS: WVW ADMINISTRATORS
OFFERED 20% PAY HIKES 





KINGSTON -- The Wyoming Valley West School Board offered raises and bonuses
Wednesday to 17 administrators that are higher than those recently given the
district's teachers. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Director Jim Burns proposed hikes totaling 20 percent over four years in a
late afternoon meeting with high school principal Timothy McGinley, the
administration negotiator. Superintendent Norman Namey also attended. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Some administrators would get even more, with special salary adjustments on
top of the percentage raises. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 In contrast, the district's 350 teachers got 16 percent over four years,
after two years of often-bitter negotiations and the threat of a strike. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Burns originally suggested administration raises of 4.5 percent, 5.9
percent, 5.8 percentand 5.8 percent to the board in a closed-door executive
session Tuesday night. As with the teachers, the hikes would be retroactive to
1991-92 and run through 1995-96. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 The board chopped that down to 4 percent, 5.4 percent, 5.3 percent and 5.3
percent during the session and authorized Burns to present that to McGinley on
Wednesday. The teachers' contract calls for 3 percent, 4.4 percent, 4.3
percent and 4.3 percent raises in those years. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 The proposal, which has not been made public, was obtained Wednesday by The
Times Leader. If it is adopted, at least six district administrators would be
paid more than $60,000 four years from now. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Elementary principal William Bosso's pay, for example, would jump from
$58,563 to $71,180. middle school principal Charles Suppon, with three $1,000
salary adjustments along the way, would get $61,596 instead of $44,203. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Superintendent Namey and finance manager Alan Yendrzeiwski would not be
covered by the proposal and will negotiate their pay later, after the
administrators come to terms. Namey makes $72,000 per year, Yendrzeiwski
$52,488. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Several directors said the higher salaries are necessary to recruit
top-notch administrators, some of whom make less than the people they manage. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Three assistant principals hired in August all came from outside the
district, Burns said. They're paid $40,000 and work year-round, while senior
teachers make up to $47,000 for nine months. By 1995-96, the teachers' salary
scale will range from $26,608 to $54,922. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "Nobody in the district would apply because of the large salary gap," Burns
said. "We want to get some kind of parity." &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Burns described his talk with McGinley as "upbeat," but said many of the
proposed individual salaries obtained by The Times Leader will be changed
during negotiations. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 The yearly across-the-board increases probably will remain intact, however,
Burns said. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 McGinley could not be reached for comment Wednesday night. The next meeting
has not been scheduled. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Teachers' union president Tony Kane agreed with the directors that pay for
middle managers is non-competitive. He said the administration salary scale is
"screwy" and has been for years. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Kane doesn't oppose adjusting the pay scale for certain administrators, he
said, but the annual across-the-board percentages should be the same for both
teachers and administrators. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "If your boss is making less money than you're making, then something is
wrong," Kane said. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 The board also is asking the administrators for concessions on health care,
specifically exchanging the traditional Blue Cross/Blue Shield plan for a
managed care system, outgoing board president George Dervinis said. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Dervinis hopes teachers could move to managed care in the future if the
administrators take the lead, he said. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "It's a fair proposal," Dervinis said. "We have to keep our administrators
paid as well as our teachers to attract quality people." &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 Support for the proposal isn't unanimous among the directors. Kevin Warman,
for one, said the raises are too high and won't pass as written now. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 "I'd like to see some members of the management team have a salary that
reflects the fact that they are supervisors," Warman said. "But that is not
across the board." &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
 The school board will meet next at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday to reorganize with
three new directors. A regular monthly meeting will follow. Both are at the
middle school on Chester Street in Kingston.

Wvw Administrators Offered 20% Pay Hikes Pay Proposal Exceeds Teacher Raises By 1 Percent Per Year