The salaries of higher earning employees of the Delta school district and other financial information for the 2010/11 school year will be available to the public in the coming weeks.
Districts are required to submit their annual Statements of Financial Information (SOFI) for the last school year to the Ministry of Education by Dec. 31.
The latest information is for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011.
The report lists all of the district's employees making more than $75,000 a year and payment to suppliers for goods and services.
Once the ministry has gone over the reports, the information is then posted on many school districts websites. Although that's not so in Delta's case, the information is available upon request.
While the SOFI for the 2010/11 Delta school year is not available as of yet, the report for the year ending June 30, 2010 is available.
Meanwhile, more recent information on the salaries of some of the top administrators is now available from the Public Sector Employers' Council.
According to the SOFI, almost 470 employees, including administrators, principals and teachers, earned over $75,000.
Former superintendent Steve Cardwell, who left part way through that year to take a job with the Vancouver school district, is on the books for $118,067. He also accumulated $10,875 in expenses.
According to the Public Sector Employers' Council, his total remuneration the previous year, once pension and other compensation were included, was $189,758.
Current superintendent Dianne Turner was an assistant superintendent in 2009/10, earning $145,086 in salary and reporting $22,307 in expenses, according to the SOFI. Her superintendent's salary combined with her pension and other benefits last year (fiscal year ending June 30, 2011), according to the Public Sector Employers' Council, went up to $216,631.
Former secretary-treasurer Michelle Miller left just prior to the end of the 2010 fiscal year and had the highest payout that year, the SOFI notes. According to the Public Sector Employers' Council, her total remuneration was $228,764.
When asked why she left, school board chair Dale Saip would only say at the time it was a "mutual decision." Her payout basically doubled what she made the previous year.
Keeping his duties as human resource director, Joe Strain also assumed the secretary-treasurer's role last fall. His total pay was $163,094 for the fiscal year ending 2011, states the Public Sector Employers' Council report.
As far as what Delta school trustees earned, their salaries were $19,995 each, according to the SOFI (it's $20,688 this year). As chair, Saip earned more at $22,143, while Simon Truelove, as vice-chair that year, earned $20,884.
Saip had the most in expenses at $5,806, while Gordon Masi, who did not run for re-election this fall, had the least at $1,149.
sgyarmati@delta-optimist.com
