- The position of Support Manager was a newly created position within FBISD, even though FBISD is in a deficit state and trying to reduce expenditure.
- The new position of Support Manager listed as one of it's key requirements a minimum of a Bachelors Degree in order to qualify for an interview. Without meeting the minimum requirements, no person would be allowed to interview for the job.
- The candidate selected for the position of Support Manager did not meet the minimum educational requirements set forth by FBISD.
- There were two African American applicants that were interviewed for the position of Support Manager, both of whom met the educational requirements. In fact, one of the African American applicants has an MBA, while the other black applicant has a Bachelors Degree and currently works in the Facilities Department.
- Mr. Johnson made the selection of an unqualified candidate for the Support Manager alone, and his recommendation of an unqualified candidate was approved by Rhoda McWilliams.
- The letter sent to the Board of Trustees detailed the possibility that Mr. Johnson created two new positions, one being the Support Manager and another being a secretary position for himself, to fill with his personal friends. Nevermind that the applicants awarded these new positions may not have had the proper qualifications.
- There is currently an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) investigation being conducted on Mr. Johnson and FBISD to whether there is evidence of racial discrimination regarding the selection process of the new Support Manager. The findings of the EEOC investigation could very well indicate severe violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
- To date, there has been no sort of response by the board members of FBISD regarding the severe allegations.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Open Letter Sent to Board Members Asking for Investigation
A letter was sent to the members of the Fort Bend ISD Board of Trustees on Monday, December 8, 2008, in which details of alledged discrimination on the part of the Director of Facilities, Michael Johnson and Rhonda McWilliams, the head of Human Resource, in the hiring of a new Support Manager. The letter also details that the candidate hired by Mr. Johnson did not meet the minimum educaational qualifications set forth by FBISD, among other irregularities. Even though the allegations set forth in the letter to the board members are very disturbing, there has not been any sort of response on the part of FBISD to address the issues brought forth. The key allegations against Mr. Johnson and Ms. McWilliams are listed below.
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What a shame that people have to be subjected to treatment like this, because they have to make a living.Hopefully the truth will become more and more know to the people of our community.
ReplyDeleteWe will overcome this injustice. How can a district like Fort Bend behave like this? There is no place for hate in FBISD. The district needs to investigate these claims immediately.
ReplyDeleteWe would hope the School Board members investigate this matter; it seems the district should be hiring more teachers and educational staff instead of hiring more administrative staff.
ReplyDeleteWith the district having to resort to using a deficit budget for the first time in its history; how can Mr. Johnson justify hiring additional staff and wasting taxpayers money renovating functioning offices to fill with his newly created positions? (Did the Board Members approve these positions or were they just created without any justification?)
ReplyDeleteMr. Johnson is a sort of Hitler and demands like a little child and treats everyone with the snap of his finger. He is arrogant and sneaky always sneaking around and watching like we are elementary children. He is mentally sick and has severe control issues. He is going to have a rude awakening. Ft. Bend needs to get rid of him. He thinks he is invincable and can do and treat everyone like he wants to, but he is mistaken because WE employees of ft bend will not tolerate his behavior. Even if he changes his attitude we do not want him as an employee of Ft. Bend. Send him to IRAQ. He how tuff he is!
ReplyDeleteI am 55 years and have been treated like I am no body by Mike Johnson, he is cruel and inconsiderate.
ReplyDeleteI hope that we can do something about this guy. The comments I have been hearing is that no one wants to talk because they say all it's going to do is get them in trouble if Mike Johnson finds out who said what. These employees are very afraid of what he can do to them.
Isn't it strange that ever since Mike Johnson came to work here at Ft. Bend ISD 80% of employees have been having problems with their checks. One lady told me she worked her 40 hours but got paid for only
35 hours and then Ft. Bend payroll wants these employees to wait for their money until they (payroll) have time to process their missing hours. My question is why do these employees not report this to the LABOR BOARD? I don't know if they know this.
I hope that we can do something about this.
One employee that was called and questioned by Ms. McWilliams about Mike Johnson, asked her if she felt Mr. Johnson had discriminated against her because she is hispanic.
Another employee Carmelita Hammond is doing a grade 4 job because that's what Mike Johnson assigned to her, she is a grade 3, when in reality is should have been given to the support secretary then Mike Johnson changed his mind and said he was going to assign it to Facility Secretary, then changed his mind again and gave it to Irma Salinas's receptionist-who is a grade 3. Several employees told her she needs to bring that to Mike Johnson's attention. He needs to change her job title or assign that job to a grade 4 or higher to justify the grade pay.
Fort Bend district has been operating with 1 Maintenance Manager and 1 Operations Manager for a very long time, and never had a problem. Mr Johnson arrives at the district and suddenly he creates new "Puppet Positions" Support Manager, Asst Operations Manager, and secretaries. I am confused, Is he suppost to save money or waste money? He is hiring more CHIEFS instead of INDIANS. District is growing, and we have the same amount of plumbers, electricains, electornic techs, craftman, and repair man, and grounds man. I wonder if the board memeber care of the blue collar workers! When was the last time a board member visited the PFC building.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how long will it be before Johnson and Jenney try to outsource Grounds, Custodial Cleaning, and Maintenance; so they can pad thier pockets with bonuses for supposedly saving the district money, while running down the taxpayers property (school buildings) that will recieve no maintenance or cleaning. Will the board members let FBISD's Facilities deteriorate like HISD's buildings?
ReplyDeleteWhile we were having s meeting on November 19, 2008 Mike Johnson made a comment. The comment was he was going to tightened our nuts and there was one lady in the meeting and her name is Cheryl Cullar. 281-634-5526. It was other supervisors and managers in the meeting too. Again this shows Mr. Johnson has no business trying to run this operation.
ReplyDeleteThe Board Members need to investigate the operation of the Facilites Dept.; since Johnson's take over, the employees morale is at an all time low, employees cannot receive adequate cleaning supplies or materials to clean the schools or make repairs; no overtime is allowed, yet no new employees are hired to maintain the buildings. So saving money in the budget appears to be more important than maintaining the upkeep of the buildings; I wonder do the taxpayers know how their property is being maintained?
ReplyDeleteMr. Johnson accuses everyone of stealing and taking advantage of the system. No employee at Fort Bend ISD has ever had their personal vehicle services at the expense of our tax payers. Mr. Michael F Johnson you are the first!! Mr. Johnson used a Fort Bend ISD employee (John Wright) to service his own personal truck, using fort bend ISD material and labor. "That is called stealing and taking advantage of our tax money". We have pictures to prove it.
ReplyDeleteCross post this to FBISDWatch at http://fbisdwatch.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteAlthough not a present employee,I am a former employee of FBISD. FBISD has a long history of engaging in the descibed behavior as you so aptly described. EEOC has plenty of complaints against FBISD; mine and others who have traveled the road that some of you are traveling now. Watch EEOC though, they too have been known to be bought off by big corporations and school districts. This is not FBISD's first ride to the rodeo because this is not the first time that EEOC has investigated FBISD. EEOC already knows that FBISD is a "bad" actor and "ain't" nothing nice.
ReplyDeleteFeldman & Rogers will stop at nothing; that's the main reason FBISD rehired them. Feldman & Rogers keep fighting a case even when they know FBISD is wrong; and they continue to drain the coffers dry, the taxpayers money, to defend bad practices, bad acts, bad policy--their own, and bad law.
It is a hard road to fight FBISD, but there is strength in numbers. Feldman & Rogers have infuence at District Federal Court level also.
If your case goes to District Federal Court in Houston, I pray, you do not draw Reagan Republican appointee Judge Melissa Harmon to try your case.
One last caution, watch closely whatever lawyer you select, the opposing side will buy your lawyer if he can be bought. Mine was. In fact, he ended up serving on highly visible FBISD Committees.
Good point above regarding the local courts. Also you may want to consider contacting http://fbisdwatch.blogspot.com when you have areas of mutual interest such as the apparent waste going on with taxpayer monies when administrators use resources for their own private gain.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like the failure of the BOT to investigate the police chief when he apparently used resources to run for office in Galveston.
ReplyDeleteWhy has FBISD hired another one of Feldman & Rogers Lawyers for an inside position? Isn't it another to have re-hired Feldman Rogers as the district's attorneys?
ReplyDeleteMy goodness, gracious!!! I foresee doubling and tripling up efforts to squash poor employees if they should dare raise a legal challenge to the district.
Now Mr. Johnson is giving his maintenance supervisor so much extra work in a effort to make them fail. They are doing a part of the parts room supervisor and the dispatcher. He also threatened to write up supervisors if they make any errors. I know Mr. Johnson as good as he thinks he is makes at least 5 errors a day.
ReplyDeleteThere are professionals, particularly, African Americans at HBMS that are being treated so viciously, low down and dirty in a severely discriminatory and disparate manner by the Principal whose name by which she gives as her name (?) differs ambiguously and noticeably from what TEA has on her certification (?). It is like the old show "To Tell the Truth" will the real person whoever you are, please stand up to reveal who you "really" are. A lot of this ambiguous alias name stuff and ambiguous and/or fake or no credentials began to occur under Predraza and Joel Trevino when they were over the Human Resource Department. Ever try doing a search on TEA's Website for professional credentials on some folks and their names are nowhere to be found or if found they differ in spelling or one name has been suspiciously dropped and so a middle name becomes a first name and is spelled differently from how it is written on the job/position in which they represent themselves?
ReplyDeleteIf all the concealed truths were released just on HBMS alone, any other occurrence on any other campus would look like fun and games. The lies, the lies, the lies told to try to hide the real truth. Uhmmm-Uhmmm-Uhmmm.