Tuesday, August 14, 2007
23 jobs eliminated by Marshall Public Schools
Some 23 employees were let go from Marshall Public Schools Monday when the Board of Education voted unanimously to outsource custodial services to Grand Rapids Building Services for a projected savings of about $1.1 million over the next three years. The vote occurred in front of a crowd large enough to prompt the board to move the meeting into the middle school auditorium. Grand Rapids Building Services already contracts with 16 other Michigan K-12 schools and has 800 employees. They are slated to begin transitioning into the district next month. At a meeting last week to interview the firm, board members heard GRBS president Rex Kuhn and assistant Karen Wysocki say ideally, they would be fully operational by Thanksgiving if awarded the $695,000 per year contract.
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If the board thinks that they are going to save that much money than they are foolish. They were elected by the people to say what the people thought not what they thought there thoughts dont count the peopls do if u were with the mujority than that would be diffrent but they wernt i think that they all need to learn to become better school board members and administrators. They say that they are for the students but they just had about 20 students that will probly leave this district but once agian they dont care they are in it for themselfs. wouldnt that be a supprise!
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