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Cactus Wren staff member urges board to address unpaid stipends, describes repeated HR grievances
Summary
During public participation, Cactus Wren staff member Julie Even asked the Washington Elementary governing board to return questions about unpaid stipends to a future agenda and described repeated unsatisfactory human resources responses to workplace incidents over her 15 years with the district.
Julie Even, a Cactus Wren staff member, used the public comment period at the June 12 Washington Elementary School District board meeting to press the board for clarity about district stipends and to describe repeated problems with the district's human resources responses to staff complaints.
Even told the board she had "been in fear of repercussions" and said she has felt attacked by emails. She asked the board to keep the stipends and staff in the community in mind and "get it back on a board agenda," and added, "Call us back and give us more money." Even asked specifically who will review the unallocated stipend funds and when the matter will be revisited.
Even also recounted personal workplace incidents spanning her 15 years with the district. She said she had been humiliated by principals and staff and that her written reports to human resources were repeatedly dismissed; in one case, she said, a person she identified as a perpetrator remained working on campuses after she reported him and later approached her again. She acknowledged the support she has received from Superintendent Paul Stanton and from another district administrator, whom she named as "Doctor Bailey," thanking them for personal support during crises.
Board members did not respond with substantive information about stipend accounting or the human resources investigations during the public session. Even asked whether the district would reconvene the team handling stipend distribution and when additional direction would be given to staff; the board did not set a public timeline during the meeting.
Her remarks were part of the public participation portion of the meeting; no formal action on stipends or human resources was taken at the June 12 session.
