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Students and Voters: Check out by school district the excessive number of administrators and their bloated compensation packages. Why have elected SBUSD Trustees allowed Supt Hilda Maldanado to hire so many Los Angeles friends in unnecessary admin positions and cut student instruction? Ask what 833 employees accomplish at the Office of County Education, where many terminated school administrators get kicked upstairs until pension eligible.

The saying goes, “Once you have a government job, you have rights of ownership unlike jobs in the private sector. Lifetime job and pension security.” No investment required, no risks, or comparable uncertainties. Most all of Santa Barbara’s 10 largest employers are government related, with employees dependent on taxpayer revenues. They vote accordingly to save control of their lucrative, powerful fiefdoms. Are you getting your money’s worth?

2023 salaries for Santa Barbara Unified - 2,884 employees

https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2023/school-districts/santa-barbara/santa-barbara-unified/

2023 salaries for Santa Barbara County Office of Education | 833 Employees

https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2023/school-districts/santa-barbara/santa-barbara-county-office-of-education/?page=8

2022 salaries for Hope Elementary

https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2022/school-districts/santa-barbara/hope-elementary-school-district-santa-barbara/

2023 salaries for Goleta | Transparent California

https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2023/goleta/

2022 salaries for Montecito Union Elementary |

https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2022/school-districts/santa-barbara/montecito-union-elementary/

2023 salaries for Cold Spring Elementary https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2023/school-districts/santa-barbara/cold-spring-elementary/

2023 salaries for Santa Barbara City College - 2,045 employees

https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2023/santa-barbara-city-college/

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Nick, Jerry, Josh: Do your homework! Students, parents and taxpayers have rallied before —in the hundreds — to save music and art programs from the ax of bloated, excessive, entitled, and grossly overpaid failed SBUSD Administrators. Have you forgotten 2008, 2012, and countless other meetings where students stayed burning the midnight oil passionately fighting on the front and circulating petitions door to door community wide to save instrumental and music performance? Have you forgotten the Santa Barbara has produced nationally recognized professional musicians, presidential scholars in music, and the first ever national Youth Grammy spotlight winner in jazz! One local was the first ever stand up bass soloist at the Boston Pops viewed on New Years Eve by over 300M viewers internationally! Our music programs are stellar!

Moreover, show me a successful math or STEM student who did not have instrumental music instruction between ages 3 and 11. Proportionately our public designated ‘minority high schools’ get more admitted to elite national universities than any other not as legacy admits but on merit! Music is lifelong.

The end game of Trustee Prez Gabe is housing and career DEM Party escalation; students are inconsequential. The shared goal of Gabe and Trustee Rose Munoz is still another 2026 PARCEL TAX (for music & art) and a BOND MEASURE (for housing via a 55% voter approved school bond).

If voters do not elect more trustees like Celeste, who stand against entitled administrators paid more than the POTUS, there is no hope for students or Santa Barbara.

Our County School Budget is over $1.3B with SBUSD highly funded as well. Spend the money on teachers to instruct students. Stop wasting it!

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