PRAIRIE GROVE – Despite approving a contract extension for Superintendent Mary Fasbender Tuesday, District 46 school board members have yet to release details to the public.
And one board member said she did not see a copy of the contract before voting and did not know details of the new three-year contract.
“I don’t know what the increase is ... what bonuses are involved,” board member Charlotte Kremer said.
She said she voted against contract for those reasons.
School Board members approved the contract Tuesday, but the document has not been signed by either Fasbender or board President Laura Domoto. Kremer was the only “no” vote for the seven-member board.
A copy of the contract will not be released to the public until after it has been signed, despite it’s approval at Tuesday’s meeting, Domoto said.
Domoto said the board discussed the contract for months in executive session before approving the contract and that all board members should be aware of the details.
On Tuesday, board members did not discuss the contract in closed session, but did talk about the Director of Student Services, Kremer said. She said cursory information about the superintendent’s contract was last talked about in a February meeting.
This new contract extends Fasbender’s tenure from July 2007 to June 2010. She had first come to the district in July 2004 with a one-year contract and signed a three-year contract after her first one expired.
She was into her third year of that contract when the board chose to approve a new contract.
“Basically, they tore up the contract and created this new one,” Fasbender said.
When asked about details of the old or new contracts, Fasbender and Domoto both said that the document was unsigned and hadn’t been finalized.
“I can’t sign a piece of paper until I know they did the math right,” Domoto said.
She said she would have read the contract Wednesday night, but her basement flooded because of the rain.
Fasbender said the contract did include four performance “goal areas” for improving the district – a strategic design plan, financial improvements, improved internal and external communication and academic improvements.
Part of the academic improvements would involve sending surveys to parents and starting a new Web site in the middle of April designed to gather information on what the district can do better, Fasbender said.
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