Superintendent Victoria Kniewel’s salary — and all other conditions of her contract — will remain the same for the 2011-’12 school year, but officials are still working out salary details for the WW-P district’s two assistant superintendents.
While the board had originally scheduled a public hearing for the administrative contracts for June 14, a change in the state law removed the requirement to hold a public hearing.
Instead, the salaries of Larry Shanok, the assistant superintendent for finance, and David Aderhold, the assistant superintendent for planning and pupil services, will be on the agenda for approval on Tuesday, June 28. Because there was no change in Kniewel’s contract or salary, the board is not required to hold a hearing or take any action on that contract.
The current contracts for Shanok and Aderhold expire on Thursday, June 30. Currently Shanok’s salary is $165,854. Aderhold makes $144,000. It is unclear whether there will be any changes to those salaries under the new contracts. Gerri Hutner, the district’s director of communications, said contract details were still being worked out, and that salary information would not be available until Friday, June 24.
Last June, the board approved a four-year contract extension for Kniewel, whose contract would have expired on June 30. The extension keeps her contract in place until June 30, 2015.
Kniewel’s salary was frozen for the 2010-’11 school year at $192,676. Last year Kniewel asked that 1.5 percent of her base salary be contributed toward her health insurance costs beginning last July, rather than waiting until the mandated date of July 1, 2012, as required by state law.
For the 2011-’12 school year, Kniewel’s salary will remain frozen, said Hutner.
At the June 14 meeting, resident Pete Weale urged the board to get rid of an administrative position. He said the responsibilities handled by Shanok as well as comptroller Larry LoCastro could be handled by one of the two, but that there was no need for both.
“It’s all about choices in a tough economic market,” Weale said. “you either want Mr. Shanok as an assistant superintendent of finance, or you want LoCastro as the comptroller; you don’t need both.”
