This is from Doug Petty’s Current Labor Agreement (the unexpired contract that the Lodi BOE is working to replace):
Link to current labor agreement:
Contract-Superintendent
Petty.pdf (lodi.k12.nj.us)
This is from the 2021-2022 User Friendly Budget which
was created a year ago. It should have listed $181,030. Instead it lists $192,000:
Link to user friendly budget (not a detailed budget)
from the district website:
SAS
System Output (lodi.k12.nj.us)
Doug Petty’s labor agreement is showing a $181,030 base salary for
this year. The district’s user-friendly
budget is showing a $192,000 base salary for this school year before a new contract was ever approved or listed as an agenda item.
Seven Board Members have relinquished all responsibilities
and duties to Doug Petty. Lodi has
returned to the old days of rubber-stamping and nothing else. No reading. No researching. No questioning. No accountability. Dennis Frohnapfel placed in writing that not
one board member saw a copy of a detailed budget before they approved the budget
and raised Lodi taxes.
Doug Petty’s actions and decisions with his own contract
are the reason why Doug Petty and Dennis Frohnapfel are illegally denying the
public access to a detailed budget.
Being the Board has been so secretive and works without any transparency, they probably are giving Doug Petty more than what is listed on the user-friendly budget.
Doug Petty came to Lodi from Newark with no district wide
experience as a superintendent or assistant superintendent. He began his first year in Lodi by shutting
down schools and having parents pick up packets on tables left out on school
parking lots. He increased school
spending 8.4% in just 2 years. His board members rubber-stamped his tax increases without ever seeing a budget. They raised taxes at a time when Lodi was receiving millions more in state aid. They removed
all transparency measures that some people fought so hard to get in place.
Doug Petty should be elated that he was given an
opportunity to work in Lodi and with a 5-year contract. He is yet to earn the salary listed in his current contract. He hasn’t proven
himself as an effective superintendent or innovative leader. It’s mind boggling that 7 board members are
allowing him to write a new contract for himself to replace an unexpired
one. In Lodi, failure pays. Literally.
Former Board Member Natalie Delgado who was the running mate of Nepotism Nancy and Sharon Salvacion was right when she said that Doug Petty was inexperienced and the wrong choice for Lodi. She also shed light on how Doug Petty was shutting the board members out of some of the most important district matters such a school reopening plan.
