The answer is absolutely not. There is zero reason for a payroll clerk in Mineral County School District. It was a position created, likely in a quid pro quo between Hope Blinco and Diane Rodriguez. Some of you may wonder how much work actually goes into payroll.
It takes 2 days twice a month to do payroll. That is for a number of reasons. The primary reason it doesn’t take long is because most of the employees are annualized. That means that they get the same check every time with very few exceptions. For annualized employees, the only thing that has to be keyed is leaves that are paid, or unpaid.
The remaining staff, probably left than 12 isn’t much harder because they work 12 months a year and get paid for hours worked. Hope Blinco likes to pull a Houdini rabbit out of the hat and watch webinars for a week and then claim is too overworked.
I not only personally observed how long payroll takes over the course of years, but I also processed the holiday bonuses in 2021 in 2 days with zero experience on how that works. It was as simple as following the picture book from Tyler Technologies. It was after I did that and started advocating for more teachers over useless staff that the problems with the unethical Blinco really began to escalate.
The whole debacle with getting people paid their negotiated raises was nothing more than a petty scheme, surely cooked up by Andre Ponder, Hope Blinco, and Diane Rodriguez who felt educators did not deserve raises. There is a utility in Infinite Visions that would’ve processed the retro pay in a matter of hours, not four months. In the end, that is probably what Hope used and then claimed was some lengthy ridiculous process. Hope just loves to to twist things to make people think it is more of a task than it is. If there was ever an HR “bee” competition, I could easily prove her incompetence and outright laziness.
I find it more than coincidental that position got snuck into the budget at the very moment Diane Rodriguez landed herself another golden briefcase of cash for nothing. Sometimes when you get two potential criminals together, they find ways to both benefit from the situation.