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Principals get a pay boost for extra duties
By Mary Smith
McDONALD
The board of education approved revised contracts for the high-school and elementary-school principals, giving them both an extra $4,000 stipend and 2 percent annual increases.
High school Principal Gary Carkido’s three-year contract for Aug. 1, 2012, to July 31, 2015, was revised to include the $4,000 stipend for both 2013 and 2014, and a 2 percent increase on top of that for both years.
Carkido had been making $75,610 before the increases. He will make $77,122 in 2012-13 and $78,634 in 2013-2014.
Roosevelt Elementary school Principal David Vecchione’s three-year contract from Aug. 1 to July 31, 2016, was revised to include a $4,000 stipend for each of its first and second years, and 2 percent raises in all three years.
Vecchione had been making $68,680.68. The raises will increase his salary to $70,227 in 2013 to 2014; $71,604 in 2014 to 2015; and $72,981 in 2015-2016.
School board President Jack Dugan said McDonald schools are among few in the state with a part-time superintendent and part-time treasurer. The two principals have picked up work that would normally be done by a superintendent or a treasurer.
“We’re just catching up for a job well done,” he said at this week’s board meeting.
The board also agreed to a contract with Weathersfield schools to use Luke Bottorf for psychology services for the 2013-2014 school year. The districts share the psychology services, and McDonald will use him for 75 days a year, and is expecting to pay 40 percent of his annual salary at approximately $28,634.
The board also renewed a contract with Weathersfield schools to transport McDonald’s Trumbull Career and Technical Center students for the coming school year, at a cost of $8,000.
In other business, the board hired the following for the 2013-14 school year: Thomas Senich, on a one-year certified contract as a full-time high school social studies teacher at $30,722 a year; Beverly Ann Winchell Simpson, one-year certified contract, as a part-time Family and Counselor science teacher at $20,968 a year; Elementary Intervention Paraprofessionals Tammy Candel and Viktoria Stoops for TitIe I intervention for grades K to 6, at $11 an hour part-time for 83 days, for a total of $11,071, paid for through federal funds.