7/16/13 - The Brighton Board of Education will bring back a school administrator that it had recently laid off. The board Monday night voted 7-0 to bring back Maltby Intermediate School Assistant Principal Jeff Eisele, who had been served a termination notice in late March along with two other administrators as the board grappled with ways to trim the $7.4 million legacy budget deficit. Superintendent Greg Gray tells WHMI that he will be extremely happy to have Eisele back. The other laid off administrators include Hornung School Principal Susan Johnson and Community Education Director Ann Rennie. There are no plans at present to return the latter two to their former positions, given the districtâs tenuous financial situation. Gray re-emphasized that the layoffs were based strictly on the need to cut costs, and not on performance. But he also made it clear that Maltby, with 1,000 students, sorely needed Esile to assist in supervising the building at Bauer and Brighton roads in Genoa Township. Additionally, he says the move will enable Assistant Superintendent of Instruction Laura Surrey to continue her duties full-time at central office, instead of splitting it between there and Maltby. Surrey was as scheduled to take over some of Eiseleâs duties at Maltby, and board members said the district really needs a full-time curriculum director. Eiseleâs return will cost the district about $120,000, but Gray says the district will be able to absorb that with the increase in state funds coupled with better-than-projected student numbers from the shared services and schools-of-choice programs. (TT)
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