School employee claims discrimination

The issue, which she said she first brought to the board three years ago, revolves around a salary dispute.

After the pay of workers in the system was published in the newspaper, Mayfield said she noticed she was making less than male counterparts, including a co-worker she had trained.

“I do good work,” she said. “I have no complaints, and I just feel like it’s unjust that you give 16 years of your work and train someone to come in and make more than you make.”

Mayfield met with superintendent James “Mac” McCoy back in 2008 asking him why she was making less. She said McCoy told her she was the highest paid custodian in the system — a statement McCoy disputes making.

Mayfield approached the board Monday night asking it to allow her to take a lie detector test. If she fails, she said, she would pay for the test and also work for an entire month without pay with a sign in front of the school saying that she lied to McCoy.

No board member made a motion to approve the request.

Instead, chairman Paul Sergent said her pay would be evaluated and the board will determine the reasoning behind the alleged discrepancies.

Mayfield, a former Commerce City Council member, then asked for a deadline, because she said that she’s been waiting for three years for an answer.

Sergent said that the board could hopefully have an answer in the next month or month and a half.

“We certainly don’t intend to have any discrimination, you know, racially or sexually or any other way,” Sergent said.