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Christina School District board approves three-year contract for Dr. Joiner as superintendent
Summary
At a May 14 special meeting, the Christina School District Board voted unanimously to approve a three-year contract for Dr. Joiner as superintendent, with a minimum 2% annual base increase, a $750 pretax vehicle reimbursement rolled into base pay, and evaluation language modeled on Effective School Boards.
The Christina School District Board of Education voted unanimously May 14 to approve a three-year employment contract for Dr. Joiner as the district’s superintendent.
Board attorney James Stafford said he negotiated the agreement with Dr. Joiner and recommended it, telling the board, “as your counsel, I have, with no reservation, a recommendation that this contract is, from a legal perspective, approvable.”
The contract establishes a three-year initial term, with automatic one-year renewals unless either party gives at least six months’ written notice of intent not to renew. The agreement sets the superintendent’s starting pay at the lowest amount in the posted salary range for the position and includes a minimum 2% base increase each year. The contract also rolls a $750 pretax vehicle reimbursement into base compensation and includes standard benefits and a technology reimbursement provision.
Stafford said the contract’s performance-goals and evaluation language were modeled on Effective School Boards material the board has been using in workshops. The document requires the superintendent to develop interim goals and includes defined terminology and footnotes intended to clarify how evaluations and goals will be implemented.
The contract permits the superintendent to engage in outside professional activities consistent with the agreement and contains an explicit provision allowing the superintendent, with board approval, to retain an external coach or consultant for mentoring and professional development.
On termination and appeals, Stafford said the agreement “very closely tracks and, in fact, complies with the requirements of Title 14, Delaware Administrative Code §7.25,” adding that termination during the contract “must be for cause” unless by mutual agreement. The contract also specifies an appeal process consistent with the same administrative-code provisions and states Delaware law governs the agreement.
Board member Monica Moyak made the motion to accept the negotiated contract, and Dr. Amy Trout seconded. The vote was 5-0 in favor, with two members absent. After the vote, several board members, including Alethea Smith Tucker, thanked staff and partners involved in the negotiation and the board’s adoption of the Effective School Boards model.
The board took no other formal action on the matter beyond approving the contract at the special meeting and then adjourned.
