MASON CITY – Mason City School Board member Mark Young resigned at Monday’s school board meeting.
Young is a local attorney and has aspirations for a career in education. “Mr. Young submitted his letter of resignation to the Board as he has completed a Masters Program in School Administration,” School Superintendent Anita Micich said. “His desire is to begin this new journey in his career path.”
School board members receive no pay for their service.
According to the school district, the “Board will appoint someone to fill Mark Young’s position depending on when they actually accept his resignation and if he still has time left on his term. The appointed Board Member would fill out the rest of his term if there is time left on it and then the appointed Board Member would be up for re-election on September 10th.”
The Board Members that are up for election on September 10th are Tim Becker, Bob Thoms, and Michele Applegate.
Also according to the school district, the School Board has not yet set the date for the vote on the Instructional Support Levy (ISL) but they will most likely do that at the May 20th Board Meeting. There was no word on whether the ISL vote would take place on September 10th with the school board vote or if voters would be required to return to the polls a second time to vote on the ISL.
Iowa schools recies 1% of all taxes collected in the state of iowa – so we already have a school tax. VOTE NO NO NO !
School Levy vote – they say mason city does not have a school surtax –but but in july 1 2008 Iowa took the school levy tax and added it to ALL iowans -increasing from 5% to 6% and a permanent tax. Except autos – they never have enough easy money – then add your city tax of 1% making your iowa tax 7% –
I don’t know Mr. Young but I do know that school boards spend a lot of time doing what is volunteer work. They donate their time to serve the district and for that, you should be grateful. Do any of you want the position? Probably not, because it would take away from your time. Don’t knock it down unless you are willing to put your money where your mouths are.
You are exactly right they SERVE the district. Nuff said.
No, they serve the district which means they serve the community. How many hours have you given back to your community?
About 700 hours because I pay 30% txes. I have to work about 1/3 of the year, that’s what I’M DOING!!!!
30% Really? That is a lot of money for taxes. I would hire an accountant. Or I would hire someone to do my taxes because that sounds like an awful lot to be paying the state in taxes. Or you make so much money you pay more taxes. The top rate in Iowa is 8.9%
So a person who pays taxes is doing nothing?
Hopefully he is a better teacher than he is an attorney. He is a tool and couldn’t get himself out of a traffic ticket.
“A lot of private practice lawyers aren’t making jack. There’s too many of them. Plus there’s a million websites people can go to download their own legal forms etc etc. You can get divorced online way cheaper than hiring an attorney who will juice you for thou$and$.”
I would rather pay thousands of dollars for a good attorney who has experience, than to trust some silly web site’s antiquated forms and advice. Most people end up hanging themselves out to dry because of pro se divorces.
The men I graduated with that became attorneys are far from starving. Let’s just say if you are good at what you do, word gets around and clients beat a path to your door.
Mr Young was a teacher at NSRF in the 80’s
Mr. Young is one of two City Attornies for Mason City. He handles the criminal work. Who will the City replace him with?
A monkey would be better than him!
Troo dat, Raymond!
Even better, he wants to go where the real gravy is, school administration!
Who would hire him as an administrator having never been in a classroom?
Oh wait, that’s right, we’re talking education. He’ll get a cushy overpaid job easily.
That’s a LOT of gravy! Even more than many lawyers make and you don’t have to do hard work.
That ain’t workin’ that’s the way you do it on the MTV!
A lot of private practice lawyers aren’t making jack. There’s too many of them. Plus there’s a million websites people can go to download their own legal forms etc etc. You can get divorced online way cheaper than hiring an attorney who will juice you for thou$and$. Maybe Mr. Young sees the writing on the wall and is going for the sweet, thick, lumpy gravy that is the school system. Can’t really blame him. Plus he is in the club now having been on the board for years he will get hired for sure. He will make $80K to $100K the minute he applies.
Like father, like son. Mr. Young made sure teachers got PAID. Now he wants to do it full time.