Letter: Pastorek, pay, no-bid consultants
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Paul Pastorek, Louisiana state superintendent of education, former attorney for Adams & Reese, will have a pay package of an annual base salary of $271,611, a housing allowance of $54,000 ($4,500 a month); and a car allowance of $30,000 ($2,500 a month).
The package is nearly $100,000 more than the late Superintendent of Education Cecil Picard’s compensation.
Pastorek’s proposed contract calls for a 6 percent increase every July 1 until Jan. 9, 2012.
Now Pastorek wants to hire education consultants, costing the state more money, without taking bids on contracts for the work. He would be able to hire a consultant for a year’s worth of work beginning July 1 at no more than $250,000. Currently, consultants who are paid more than $50,000 must be hired through a competitively bid contract.
Pastorek wants to add educational consultants to the long list of professional services that are exempt from the bid requirements. The list includes lawyers, doctors, dentists, psychologists and veterinarians.
Cecil Picard had school experience, as teacher, coach and principal. Pastorek has been on the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.
How much is he going to cost the state of Louisiana? Aren’t there enough teachers and principals in the state that he could meet with to find out how to improve education in Louisiana, or will he just hire more lawyers?
Gloria W. Conlin
retired secretary/bookkeeper
Abbeville
The package is nearly $100,000 more than the late Superintendent of Education Cecil Picard’s compensation.
Pastorek’s proposed contract calls for a 6 percent increase every July 1 until Jan. 9, 2012.
Now Pastorek wants to hire education consultants, costing the state more money, without taking bids on contracts for the work. He would be able to hire a consultant for a year’s worth of work beginning July 1 at no more than $250,000. Currently, consultants who are paid more than $50,000 must be hired through a competitively bid contract.
Pastorek wants to add educational consultants to the long list of professional services that are exempt from the bid requirements. The list includes lawyers, doctors, dentists, psychologists and veterinarians.
Cecil Picard had school experience, as teacher, coach and principal. Pastorek has been on the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.
How much is he going to cost the state of Louisiana? Aren’t there enough teachers and principals in the state that he could meet with to find out how to improve education in Louisiana, or will he just hire more lawyers?
Gloria W. Conlin
retired secretary/bookkeeper
Abbeville
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