Somers Board extends superintendent’s contract through 2028–29, approves no salary increase for 2026–27

After a closed executive session, the Somers Board of Education voted 6–0 on June 22 to extend Superintendent Dr. Sam Galloway’s contract through the 2028–29 school year and to approve no salary increase for the 2026–27 school year. The motion to accept Dr. Galloway’s recommendation was made by Anne Kirkpatrick and seconded by Dr. Ed DePeau.

Board members moved into executive session at 7:15 p.m. to discuss the superintendent’s evaluation and contract and exited at 7:45 p.m. The board then took the public motion accepting the recommendation. The recorded vote was Yea: 6, Nay: 0; three members were absent (JT Galloway, Kim Radziewicz and Derek Zelek).

The motion’s text in the minutes states the board accepted the recommendation “of no salary raise for the 26-27 school year and that we extend his contract one year thru 28-29.” The minutes show the action followed the executive-session evaluation; no additional public deliberations or alternative contract terms are recorded in the public minutes.

The board’s agenda lists the executive-session rationale as discussion of the superintendent’s evaluation and contract and indicates Dr. Galloway was invited into that closed session. The meeting adjourned at 7:46 p.m.

Next steps: the minutes do not record further details about any revised contract terms beyond the one-year extension or whether the board will publish the updated contract; absent members and future board meetings were noted but no additional public action on the contract was recorded at this meeting.