Interim, Nice work if you can get it

We had a faculty meeting the other day to meet the interim of special services. A man that has held several high ranking positions in our district. He was just approved to work in this capacity for a pay rate of $550 a DAY! I take offense to the idea of interim when there are many young men and women like ourselves with the certification and the desire to work and get our feet wet. How can our district pay these people these salaries when the budget just went down and they cut ALL the Freshmen sports programs. How much does it cost to run those programs...isn't everything we do "for the kids?!?!" Our school building has yet to hire a Media Specialist. Keep in mind i'm in a fairly new school building and the media center is beautiful, and it should be utilized by students everyday, but instead it sits empty except for a few music classes because they've assigned that teacher WAY to many students. Who is accountable for spending when my phys ed department just chipped in $20 each to buy more ink for our printer just so we can make dittos and tests for health class. Awful.