The story goes on, part II: Human Resources Director

We left off where the district, back on 2006-07, needed to correct their lack of having a certificated person holding the title of Affirmative Action Officer. How, or why, it was decided that this void was going to be filled with a new position is something I do not know, I was not even here when that happened. This position, back on March of 2007, was said would be that one of:

--Human Resources Director.

Click the link for the job description if you want to check out the details of it. The position of Human Resources Director seems to have been from the Larry Leverett days since it was adopted on 1995 and it was revised on 2002. Larry Leverett left, I believe, early 2003. Why a new job title was created, that one of Chief of Staff, is not known to me at this moment.

Important to note are two facts on this HR Director position:

One: The position was created and amended before the December 2003 adoption of new standards for educators here in the state.

Two: When the state came on January 2007 to do their QSAC review of the district they noted that there were questions on several titles, Human Resources Director was one of them. (Click HERE for the QSAC link, then go to the zip file for personnel files)

So, here you have two contradicting things going on:

The Plainfield district schools' Comprehensive Equity Plan corrective action plan fixed the void of a certificated person by appointing a yet to be hired Human Resources Director, and, QSAC's findings say there is a problem with the HR Director title. This contradiction went on around the same time, the CEP corrective plan was due to the state on March 30, 2007, but the QSAC's review was still going on as it was on March 23, 2007 (p.2) that the state held a QSAC public forum for the Plainfield community. What to do then? Panic?

Well, the then superintendent, Ms. Howard, resigned (p.1&2)on June 2007. Mr. Peter Carter came in and it was under his short tenure that the position of Human Resources Director was filled (p.13) by now a former administrator that is suing the district. These are just pure facts, you can click all the links to verify this information.

But before we move on to later dates and start looking more on depth on this story it is worth to note that Minutes from a May 15, 2007 Executive Session shed some light into the search for this position. A current member is recorded asking for an update on the applications for HR Director. The district was moving along to comply with the Comprehensive Equity Plan.

QSAC was being ignored? No one at the time gave, or knew, the importance QSAC has.

More on this story later. The stove is calling. I'll continue with more later tonight. But the Minutes are HERE, last ones on the file.