W orried about potential cuts to assistant school principals, board members Amy Carney and Carine Werner have been asking Scottsdale Unified School District Superintendent Scott Menzel to look for savings “at the district level.”

Menzel did indeed find funding to keep the assistant principals fully funded.

But one of the moves he promoted as cost savings did not sit well with Carney and Werner.

At the May 13 board meeting, a 3-2 vote approved the job description for a new position: chief communications and information officer.

According to the agenda: “This job description combines two existing positions: Chief Systems Officer and Director of Communications into one. This is a fiscal savings of $133,394.”

Carney and Werner’s problem: Kristine Harrington, the district’s director of co

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