Seymour’s new Superintendent of Schools, Christine Syriac, will make $163,470 a year when she starts in July 2012.
She will receive a 2.5 percent raise in 2013 and can negotiate another raise the following year.
Those details were revealed in a three-year contract approved by the Board of Education last week. The contract starts in July 2012, and runs through June 2015.
The school district released the contract to the Valley Independent Sentinel last week.
The three-page document outlines Syriac’s pay scale, benefits and duties.
Syriac will take over the district in July 2012, after current Superintendent MaryAnne Mascolo retires.
Mascolo said she is retiring after next school year in order to spend long overdue time with her loved ones.
Syriac’s starting salary is the same as Mascolo’s salary for 2011 – 2012.
Of her annual salary, $7,500 can be paid into a tax-sheltered retirement plan, if Syriac wants.
The Board of Education voted 7 to 2 in May to appoint Syriac as the next superintendent. She was the only candidate interviewed because the board decided to look “inside” the district before searching elsewhere, chairman Edward Strumello had said at the time.
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Syriac will receive 25 vacation days, and five days each year can be carried over to the next contract. Syriac can not accrue more than 30 total vacation days, the contract says.
If she doesn’t use the 30 accrued days, Syriac can receive a payment for them when she leaves the district.
Her other benefits are the same as the Seymour Administrators Association members.
Under the contract, the district will pay for Syriac to attend two education conferences during the three-year contract period — the American Association of School Administrators educational conference, and one other conference of her choosing.
She also gets a $150 monthly travel stipend, and a one-third health insurance payment upon retirement.
Strumello didn’t return a call for comment.
