A few comments from Mr. Simpson

Oversight? I don't see no oversight. Do you see any oversight? We don't need it, anyway. We do jist fine without it. Heck, you should SEE the money rolling in from all them teechers! No wonder the AVERAGE salary in this fancy palace is six figures! Remember, that "average" figures in everybody's salary, from the highest-paid leech to the lowest-paid gofer. Didn't I hear the other day there's something like 200 people in this place that make six-figure salaries? That sounds pretty cool when you realize that represents close to 40% of the people on the payroll!

I hear that big union next door does pretty well, too. They have a humongous payroll; again, tons of six-figure salaries; but then they charge their teachers a FORTUNE in dues to pay those folks! Between that place and the palace, and now out-of-control inflation, I don't see how them poor teechers who have survived that corona virus and havin' to teech in those classrooms with their masks on and then havin' to go home and create them virtual lesson plans out of thin air can even afford to put food on the table, let alone keep up with their mortgage payments. And I bet a bunch of them are still strapped tryin' to pay off their student loans, too.

Oh well, that ain't my worry. I'm busy enough trying to keep that Board and all them stakeholders in the dark, thinkin' we don't have enough dough to worry about a little thing like a COLA. Would you believe a bunch of them Board members actually believe it? Trouble is, there are a few really smart guys on that Board that's figured out what's really goin' on, but since the rest of them don't know squat about the real workings of this place, and they think them staff people walk on water, I still don't feel inclined to worry since they have the majority vote. Even one or two of them ladies are pretty outspoken, which works out great in our favor because it makes them look important, at least in their minds, even if they don't have a clue what they're talkin' about. That don't matter as long as it pleases them staff people and the big boss that runs the whole circus (the lord of the manor, who works in mysterious ways).