News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
As she departs, May has taken steps to ease the path for a financially strapped school district.
She was expected to receive a retroactive pay raise along with middle/high school Principal Dennis Dempsey and Assistant Principal Rich Shultz (see story, Page 1), but she declined.
She also asked the district to continue her insurance for a year in lieu of some accrued vacation pay, which saved the district money. May has taken two weeks to go to Arizona to assist her ailing father, according to school employees.
School board chairman Bill Reed acknowledged the welcome savings May had allowed the district.
"Judy took these two weeks off so we wouldn't have to pay her hard money," Reed said. "The balance of what we owed her was about $6,000. Instead, she took a year of insurance which saved us about $2,000.
"She felt so strongly that Rich and Dempsey deserved raises; she elected not to take a raise herself this year," Reed said.
"I just felt at this particular time I didn't need the raise and I'm moving on, so this was my contribution to the district," May told The Nugget June 14.
Swisher was in Sisters June 14 and said he expects to be in town again in the next couple of weeks. He and his wife are searching for a home to buy near Sisters. He said he would be in town permanently in time to take up his duties July 1.
When Judy May was asked at a farewell gathering what her plans were, she said she was working on a couple of options but declined to discuss them.
Jim Cornelius is editor in chief of The Nugget and author of “Warriors of the Wildlands: True Tales of the Frontier Partisans.” A history buff, he explores frontier history across three centuries and several continents on his podcast, The Frontier Partisans. For more information visit www.frontierpartisans.com.
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