Four DCHS Coaches to Get Pay Raises

The DeKalb County Board of Education Thursday night voted to give pay raises to the DCHS head football and boys basketball coaches as well as the DCHS football and basketball head cheer coaches.
According to the Board’s action, Tiger Football Coach Steve Trapp will get an increase of $2,500 putting his total coaching supplement pay at $7,500 this year. Tiger Head Basketball Coach Lynus Martin will get a $1,500 raise which will increase his supplement pay to $6,500. The two cheer coaches will each get a $500 increase putting their pay at $1,335. The new girls basketball coach at DCHS will not get a raise since he has just been hired. His supplement pay will be $5,000.
Members of the DCHS Quarterback Club addressed the school board’s athletic oversight committee during a meeting Monday night concerned that the current supplement pay plan does not reward coaches for their value in contributing to the success of their sports programs and for the pride they help instill in the community.
Last month, the school board voted to move $5,000 within categories of the proposed 2016-17 budget to help rectify the inequities for these coaches, whose supplements rank below those in other counties in the district and across the state.
Board Chairman W.J. (Dub) Evins, III said Thursday night during the regular monthly meeting that this distribution of $5,000 is the first step in addressing inequities in coaching supplement pay “until the athletic committee can further look at the pay scales and make some adjustments,” he said.
Board members Danny Parkerson, Jerry Wayne Johnson, Kate Miller, Shaun Tubbs and W.J. (Dub) Evins, III voted for the pay raises. Board members Jim Beshearse and Doug Stephens were absent.
Meanwhile, in his monthly report on personnel, Director of Schools Patrick Cripps reported to the school board that Chandra Adcock and Julie Hale have been granted a leave as requested.
Those who have either resigned or retired are as follows:
Kelley Burgess, teacher at DCHS
Orlando Guzman, mechanic
Cecilia Jenkins, teacher at DeKalb Middle School
Sherry Judkins, custodian at Northside Elementary School
Rolando Navarro, teacher at DCHS
JoAnn Pittman, custodian at DCHS
Ashley Reeves, teacher at Northside Elementary School