Juan Lopez, chair of the Board of Education Committee on Human Resources, released a report on the MMSD’s worker’s compensation experience after a critical story on Madison’s WKOW-TV.
The new MMSD report seems only to repeat the information contained in the TV report.
Roger Price, assistant superintendent and author of the report, offered this conclusion, without directly responding to any of the issues raised in the TV station’s story:
Great steps have been taken over the last few years to improve MMSD’s worker’s compensation reporting and claims (loss) experience. This has resulted in a significant drop in our experience mod and subsequently in our premiums. We have also realized adjustments in each of the last two years as a result of a positive loss experience. However, some of these improvements will be difficult to sustain with the limited staff assigned to Risk Management.
Work is underway to create a Safety Committee that could fill part of the void left by the reduction in staff.