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A security breach has apparently leaked Social Security and bank account information of Havre Public Schools employees who use direct deposit to an unknown third party.
Employees are being urged to follow the steps posted on the school district’s website and to change their account information they have linked to have their pay direct deposited, said School Superintendent Andy Carlson at Tuesday’s school board meeting.
Black Mountain, the company that handles employee information, is setting up measures to protect the district’s employees. The company has opened a call center to answer questions and provide secure identity repair and identify theft monitoring.
Black Mountain services around 70 percent of all the school districts in Montana.
“They are going to take steps to help our folks,” Carlson said.
District Clerk Mike Arnold said that investigators have yet to find who breached the system.
The school board also voted unanimously to raise the salaries of school administrators by 3 percent in the 2014 to 2015 fiscal year and 2 percent in the 2015 to 2016 fiscal year.
“I think we are treating our folks well,” Carlson said in response to a questions about comparisons between the Havre district’s pay rate and other Montana school districts’.
Carlson told the board that the Sunnyside Intermediate School construction is going along as planned and that construction at Havre High School is looking good.
The next board of trustees meeting will be Tuesday, July 8 at 6:30 p.m. at Havre Middle School.
Reader Comments(7)
Itsfair writes:
Itsnotfairyou dont even know who your talking about, I dont know how many hours a week he puts in thats not the point, the point is he works half the year and makes 50K now if he worked the other half the year at that wage 50 x 2 is 100K you see how that math works. Most people would be happy with that in Havre. And a raise was just approved for teachers for the next two years. If the school district didnt waste so much money the could give raises, why dont they do their own payroll its tax $$
06/26/2014, 10:56 am
fairhaha writes:
This is not my profession but i know many people that are teachers that work thir butt off and a lot harder than many of us do. Your father must not be much of a teacher if he only puts in a 40 hours work week because I know a lot if people putting in 10-12 hours a day in.
06/25/2014, 5:40 pm
Willy writes:
I know that some of the administrators work all year round not just 9 months like the teachers.
06/25/2014, 4:10 pm
99percent writes:
The higher ups should refuse the raise until teachers get the pay they deserve. Do what's right, men.
06/25/2014, 1:55 pm
HPSteacher writes:
A raise for the administration? Administrators in the district already make 2-3 times that of a teacher in the same building. As a teacher in this district, who sees how much work the administrators actually put in on a daily basis, the teachers, not administrators, deserve the raise. Since I've worked in the district, the administrators visited my classroom less than twice a year--and only because they had to. If they're busy, they're busy somewhere out of the building. Refuse the raise!
06/25/2014, 1:42 pm
Itsfair writes:
What do you consider fair?? Keep in mind you have more days off in a year then you actually teach. You teach 181 days and have 185 off most people get about 100 days of a year. My dad is a teacher in Havre and makes in the ball park of 50,000 if you consider the 181 days that 276 dollars a day hourly that would $34.53 an hour. If you dont like the pay find a new profession where you work year round.
06/25/2014, 1:07 pm
fairhaha writes:
Fair to your administrators maybe. What about your teachers and paraprofessionals?
06/25/2014, 12:27 pm