Eanes should not keep public in dark about expenses.

Since when did we as tax payers have to pay for our Superintendent’s food and travel expenses? Eanes school board took away the public right for them to know what and how their tax dollars were being spent on Superintendent Nola Wellman.

“The amended contract now pays Wellman $10,000 more a year to a tax-sheltered retirement plan in addition to her annual $231,000 salary; in exchange, she pays for her own business expenses. So Wellman no longer must submit receipts to the district for reimbursement for those expenses. And the public no longer can see receipts for those expenses unless Wellman chooses to make them public.”

Not only does Superintendent Nola Wellman get a pretty salary, but on top of that she gets an extra $10,000 so she doesn’t have to show her receipts anymore, which is unfair because she could have been spending less than $10,000 and it’s just like the tax dollars are going to waste  just so the school board can keep her. Wellman insists that there "is no conspiracy to try and hide information.” Yet she is the one that converted the public information into private information. Before the change was made these expenses were, “routinely available under the Texas Public Information Act.”

The reason that Wellman is getting treated like a “goddess,” is because she has truly affected the Eanes school district, this year the Eanes school district earned the highest grades on their report card and all of their schools were rated "exemplary."

In all honesty Wellman should not hide any school expenses from the public; if they’re paying for it then they have a right to know where their money is going. “Eanes trustee Clint Sayers recommended — label an expense an expense and treat it as such. Don't continue to hide those expenses from the public by calling them income.”

I personally think that since she is getting paid with Eanes school district’s money that her expenses should be able to be seen by the public. How would we not know if the money that she is spending is for “business expenses”, or just for pleasure? I would also want to know how $10,000 is a suitable number for her to get on top of her salary, and was this how much the school district was paying before all of this happened, or was it more?