Wissahickon School Board Approves Administrator Contract

The voted on the staff and administrators contract, with a final vote of 5 to 2, with Seth Grant and Patricia Latimer absent.

Marjorie Brown who voted against the contract, said she cannot support the contract because the teachers and the superintendent agreed to a one year pay freeze and the administrators and staff were not even asked to take a similar deal.

Richard Stanton rebutted, “As for the pay freeze…that’s lovely rhetoric…but we’re giving the teachers an eight percent [increase] and not giving the administrators [nearly that].”

“We couldn’t go a whole lot lower…so I’m getting a little tired of hearing about [a pay freeze],” he added.

Young Park, President of the Board, explained that increases were based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) based on the U.S. B Bureau of Labor Statistics. He said most administrators and staff will get at least CPI with the administrators contract. Under the contract CPI is 1.6 percent.

“We cannot ask for them to mirror the teachers contract in one aspect without mirroring other aspects,” said Park.