The WW-P school board has approved a five-year contract extension for its highest administrator, Superintendent Victoria Kniewel. The board also approved the contracts for the district’s three assistant superintendents on June 15.
All members of the WW-P district’s central office staff, including the superintendent and assistant superintendents, have agreed to a pay freeze for the upcoming school year. The administrators are not part of a union.
The contracts for Larry Shanok, the assistant superintendent for finance, Russell Lazovick, the assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, and David Aderhold, the assistant superintendent for planning and pupil services, expire on June 30, 2011. Kniewel, whose contract would have also expired on June 30, 2011, has been awarded a four-year contract extension to expire on June 30, 2015.
Kniewel’s salary is frozen for this year at $192,676. Typically, the board agrees to review Kniewel’s salary at the conclusion of each school year. Kniewel asked that 1.5 percent of her base salary be contributed toward her health insurance costs beginning on Thursday, July 1, rather than waiting until the mandated date of July 1, 2012.
Under a new state law, public employees will be required to contribute 1.5 percent of their base salaries to their healthcare costs when their current contracts expire. The remainder of the employees outside of the unions will begin paying the 1.5 percent in 2012, as permitted under state law. The administrators’ contributions will begin at the same time unionized employees would begin paying.
Shanok’s salary is $165,854. Aderhold makes $144,000, while Lazovick has a salary of $137,500.
