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The Board of Education (BOE) voted to extend the contract of School Superintendent Hamlet Hernandez by one year last week. The decision was made in executive session on Wednesday, June 21.
In Connecticut, school superintendents are hired for a maximum of three years, as was the case when Hernandez was first hired in 2010; the school year runs from July to July.
BOE Chair Michael Krause said that the superintendent’s contract is then reviewed and extended on a year-by-year basis. In other words, a year is added to the existing contract making for a total of three years.
No increase in salary was discussed, according to Krause. Hernandez’s current salary is $193,260.
Awaiting Walsh Bond Approval
Hernandez reported that the design document review for the Walsh Intermediate School renovation on the state level was “very successful.” Bonding notification is expected by “late June, early-to-mid July.” He noted that the project is “on budget, on time.”
Hernandez said that the Board of Selectmen has appointed former Murphy Elementary School principal Raeanne Reynolds to the Public Building Commission. She is now principal of Walsh in a swap undertaken by Hernandez that moved former Walsh principal Robin Goeler to Murphy. The swap within the district was permitted to take place without BOE approval. Reynolds has already attended several Building Commission meetings.
Lacrosse Team Honored
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The BOE honored the girls’ lacrosse team with a proclamation. The team racked up 22 home wins over the last two years and won the Class M title, defeating no. 1 Pomperaug earlier this month.
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What a joke. This has to be the most inaccessible, unresponsive public employee ever. He really answers to no one. Thank god my last child has finally escaped the system. If you really want to know what is going on in your schools, talk to teachers and kids. Teachers will have to talk off the record because they are not allowed to say anything bad that is really happening in schools. And if a kid says something, they are supposedly just blowing things out of proportion and should be talking to a counselor before telling their parents.