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Canelli’s contract was extended to June 2017 with a salary bump.
The Board of Education unanimously voted to extend contracts for four district officials and to create two new administrative jobs.
Superintendent Garth Harries asked the board at Monday’s meeting at Martinez School to approve an addendum to his standard personnel report, in addition to the biweekly list of teacher appointments, resignations, terminations and transfers.
The addendum asked the board to approve the “creation and posting” of two new positions: chief of staff and chief of youth, family, and community engagement. The latter would replace the chief of wraparound services position, formerly held by Sue Weisselberg and now held by Adriana Joseph on an interim basis.
New Haven’s district has had a chief of staff position in the past. Some of the position’s duties overlap with Gemma Joseph Lumpkin’s position as executive director for district strategy and coordination, Harries said. He said he expects to see “internal movement” within district leadership.
“I don’t expect this to add administrative positions,” Harries said, but rather “reorganize” them.
Those positions will be compensated “commensurate with experience,” he said.
Board members were also asked to extend Deputy Superintendent Imma Canelli’s executive management contract from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2017, along with a $5,000 salary increase from her former “assistant superintendent contract.”
Harries proposed Canelli’s contract extend to 2017 to “align” with his own. He proposed the same period of extension for Will Clark, chief operating officer, but under existing salary terms.
He also asked for a contract extension for Teddi Barra, transportation facilitator, from July 1, 2015, to June 30, 2018, as well as for Catherine McCaslin, director of research, assessment and student information, from July 1, 2015, to November 15, 2015.
McCaslin plans to leave the district this November, after a 10-year stint as research director.