Who develops the benchmarks? What happens to those who attend but never graduate. This number is enormous..

Funding for education should have always been frozen, and the debt levels never allowed to climb so high.

IF Gateway wants more, they should take that as the same percent from a tax base that grew because f their programs.

What we have today is taxing authorities at all levels, Federal, State, Racine County, and locally, RUSD, Gateway and The City of Racine or Mt. Pleasant taking a larger percentage from an ever shrinking tax base. It's now a game of musical chairs, and will end in economic collapse and bankruptcy.

The former tax base will never recover because it has already left - for more profitable areas. Local government expanded salaries and benefits enormously during the local housing boom. Now they need to shrink those numbers, yet refuse to do so, and still increase spending, salaries and wages.

The refusal of government to participate in shared sacrifice in a 21st. C post peak oil global economy will end in economic collapse and the value of the fiat Federal Reserve Dollar will go to ZERO. What will your former dollar denominated assets be worth when a new currency takes the stage?

This time it will be different - because the cheap oil is gone, peak debt has been reached, and all fiat currencies are in a race to the bottom.

All - Do you think changes for Gateway should also include elected trustees instead of appointed?

Absolutely Heather. It is crazy this taxing authority exists and NO ONE is accountable to the VOTERS..

We do need accountability standards for tax funded entities. That the stewards are not elected is inexcusable.

One hundred Gateway Technical College employees earned more than $100,000 in 2011, according to school data.

That’s 17 percent of the college’s 586 staff who were issued federal W2 forms for the year.

Total payroll was $41.3 million.

Administrators on the list of top 10 earners for 2011 received pay increases between 0.2 percent and 0.6 percent. The largest pay increase on that list was 13 percent, for a manufacturing processes instructor, Richard Lofy.

Other instructors on the list were paid between 5 percent less and 6.5 percent more. Officials have said instructors can have large pay swings because of overtime or additional work.

The college’s president, Bryan Albrecht, was paid $255,426, a $1,618, or 0.6 percent, increase. That was the largest salary for the year. The second largest was paid to Daniel Neuman, an industrial mechanics instructor who received $166,588. His wages were up $10,204, or 6.5 percent, from 2010 salary.

Neuman’s salary exceeded that of Executive Vice President Zina Haywood, who was paid $161,787, a 0.4 percent increase from the year before.

Wages paid to the top 10 earners in 2011 totaled $1.56 million, a 1.1 percent decline from the previous year’s $1.57 million.

The cutoff point to land in the top 10 fell, from $135,632 last year to $134,211 in 2011.

The Kenosha News has posted on its website 2011 salaries for some Gateway employees.

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The 10 highest-paid Gateway staff in 2011:

1. Bryan Albrecht, president, $255,426.

2. Daniel Neuman, industrial mechanics instructor, $166,588.

3. Zina Haywood, executive vice president, $161,787.

4. Kenneth Haling, accounting instructor, $150,731.

5. Cheryl Ucakar, microcomputer specialist instructor, $144,219.

6. William Whyte, vice president/human resources, $139,815.

7. Cristina Cipriano, office technology instructor, $136,750.

8. Robert Formanek, medical assistant instructor, $136,649.

9. Dennis Landergott, math/physics instructor, $134,524.

10. Richard Lofy, manufacturing processes instructor, $134,211.

http://www.kenoshanews.com/news/100_gtc_employees_pay_exceeded_100_365725531.html