Board approves 3.1% raises for superintendent, assistant superintendents and executive directors

On July 10, 2018, the Washington County School District board approved a 3.1% salary increase for the superintendent and for several senior administrators, including assistant superintendents and division executive directors. The board also directed that the business administrator's salary be set at 85% of the superintendent's new salary, as described in the meeting record.

Member Hutchinson moved the salary action and Member Seigler seconded; the motion passed by voice vote with the transcript recording "Those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay." The transcript does not provide a numerical roll-call tally or list of individual votes.

The motion as described in the meeting: raise the superintendent's salary by 3.1%; set the business administrator to 85% of the superintendent's new salary; and increase the assistant superintendent over secondary, the assistant superintendent over elementary, and three division executive directors each by 3.1% over their current salaries. The record includes a reference to "Brent" in relation to the business-administrator percentage, but no job description or last name is given in the excerpt.

During discussion, a participant noted that a proposed organizational realignment may not include additional salary increases beyond this action: "The new realignment may not come with salary increases because of the salary increase we're doing right now. It may or may not," according to the meeting record. The transcript does not specify whether or when any future alignment-related salary adjustments would be adopted or funded.

No funding source or budgetary offset was described in the excerpt; the board did not cite statutes, policies, or precise budget line items in the recorded discussion. Staff were asked to proceed with implementing the approved percentage increases under the terms discussed at the meeting.