Reminder: payroll changes will kick in July 1

As we come to the end of the fiscal year, we wanted to give you a brief update and provide you with a reminder in regard to payroll changes effective July 1, 2014.

The pay that will be issued on Friday, June 27, is the last full pay for the 2013-14 year, and will include performance pay for those who qualified. Those additional dollars could come in handy based on the changes in payroll.

In order to come into compliance with the Auditor General’s finding and the Article 9 of the Arizona Constitution, the District will start a delayed payroll system beginning July 1. Under this new system, employees will no longer be paid in advance for anticipated work. Failure to make this change could result in the in the state withholding funds from the District.

All employees were informed earlier this year about these changes, and the District offered several opportunities to voluntarily withhold or delay some payments to ease some of the inconveniences this change will bring.

For the 2014-15 year, employees will be paid on Thursday instead of Friday. The following first-pay schedule is in effect:

12 Month Hourly Employees

To close out the fiscal year, you will receive a check on July 10. This pay will cover the final six days of June. First Pay: July 17. This check will cover the first four days of the new fiscal year. Beginning July 31 you will receive regular two weeks pay for the remainder of the fiscal year. July 31 is also the first check in which benefits deductions will be made.

Teachers

First pay: Aug. 28. It will be a full pay. This is six days later than in the past. New teachers will receive their first pay on Aug. 14. It will be for five days. New teachers will receive their first full pay on Aug. 28.

Exempt Classified Employees and Administrators

First Pay: July 17. This pay will cover only four days. Exempt classified employees and administrators will receive their first full pay check on July 31.

Hourly classified employees who start Aug. 11

First pay: Aug. 28. I will be a full pay.

Click here for the full pay schedule for the 2014-15 school year.

Once these adjustments are made at the start of our fiscal year, you will receive your full paycheck as you regularly have.

We hope this information and reminder is helpful to you.

Principals selected for Discovery, Mensendick

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Parents and students from Don Mensendick and Discovery schools have new principals to meet. The appointments of Michelle Brady as principal at Mensendick and Norma Jauregui at Discovery were approved by the Glendale Elementary School District Governing Board at its meeting tonight.

Brady has spent the last four years as an assistant principal at Challenger Middle School. She has been an educator for 14 years, beginning as a teacher in th

Norma Jauregui, left, and Michelle Brady

e Peoria Unified School District. Brady has also served as an instructional coach in the Dysart Unified School District, and is currently an Academic Associate in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in management from Arizona State University, and Master’s degrees in curriculum and instruction and administration and supervision from the University of Phoenix.

Jauregui, an educator for 20 years, joins GESD from the Cartwright Elementary School District, where she served as principal at Frank Borman Elementary School since 2011. Prior to that she served four years as principal at Tomahawk Elementary School, and also worked as an assistant principal and teacher. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in elementary education, and Masters degrees in curriculum and instruction and educational leadership, all from Arizona State University.

Brady and Jauregui will begin their new assignments effective July 1.