Hello, All, Here's a real life scenario from a music school administrator who used to live here in Lincoln. I'd like to get your comments/suggestions/ideas before I send a reply. Richard West, RPT University of Nebraska, Lincoln "we farm our piano work out to a number of different individuals. We pay about $13,000 a year, but this is basically tuning. Instruments are repaired only as needed and then only when absolutly necessary. Regular scheduled maintenance is non-existant. What we need is a piano technician, but there is no way that I will be able to convince the upper administration to fund such a position. So what I'm exploring is the possibility of going together with one other university in the area to hire a full-time technician who could serve essentially as a half-time technician at each school. I'm not sure how a contract would or could be drawn up, but conceptually I'm interested in seeing if this would work. so Do you know of any other place that has this type of an arrangement, i.e. one person who is hired by two schools to a full-time position where he/she would essentially work 1/2 time at each school How would we go about finding such a person? How would ascertain if they are competent? Finally, what would a new technician earn? I understand that this will vary in different parts of the country, but I'm hoping that I could pull together @$30,000 a year in salary + all the benefits that would go along with a normal university staff position; health care, retirement, life insurance, dental, etc. Do you think that would do it?"
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