MATC Teachers Are Paid More Than College Professer's

Once again, I am trying to wrap my head around the egregious spending of tax-payer dollars by MATC.
Last year they asked for $3 hundred million dollars from tax payers for expensive new buildings that they did not need - but - we gave it to them any because they did such a good job of marketing sympathy to the public.  We now have to pay extra taxes to maintain the new, shiny buildings.  THEN, Scott Walker comes along and decides to cut funding across the board and the first thing out of MATC's "mouth" was, "now how are we going to pay for the maintenance of all our shiny, new buildings.  Should we break ground for the first building"?  Sure - we'll find a way to pay for it, aka, via Dane County property tax increases.

Now, we are faced with over 100 teachers making over six figure salaries and the average making about $78,000.  Yes, they can explain why they are paid so much, but do we really need to buy into it? No!

When are we going to protest these type of aggressions that, in the long run, have and will cost more to Dane County residents than Scott Walker's budget cuts?  They keep asking and  we keep giving like guilty parents giving their neglected children money instead of love and nurturing care. (click on the title above to read the full story from WSJ)

MATC top earners



Fourteen of the top 20 earners in 2009 at Madison Area Technical College were administrators.
Name Title Salary
1. Bettsey Barhorst President $240,094
2. Terry Webb Vice president for learner success $161,405
3. Maria Banuelos Associate vice president $157,582
4. Rebecca Baumbach Vice president $150,588
5. Kenneth McCullough IT faculty $143,978
6. David Shonkwiler Dean $143,309
7. Roger Price Vice president $143,048
8. Edward Clarke Non-instructional coordinator $142,816
9. Thomas Pomykalski Faculty $142,811
10. Abdulcadir Sido Administrative dean $142,209


SOURCE: MATC, State Journal analysis

If you are not provoked by this, you should be and are guilty of betraying your fellow neighbors.

MATC and the public schools need to find new ways to raise money and new ways to recycle buildings and new ways of thinking outside the box.  I have said this before and I will say it again;  soon, we will not be able to live in Madison or Dane County because the taxing entities think the property owners have deep pockets.  We are not San Francisco and never will be, but the costs of not being San Francisco will be ours.

Stand up and let your voices be heard like you did at the Capitol for a month.

Start NOW!!