School Committee to Clean-up Contracts Late Friday

The School Committee will meet later today, June 28, to iron out contractual language for Assistant Superintendent Pamela Angelakis and special projects Superintendent Lynne Celli.

The meeting starts at 4 in the conference room at the Swampscott Middle School.

The School Committee is meeting late in the week to attend to language changes before the new contracts take effect with the new school year on Monday, said Committee Chairman Rick Kraft.

Language to be cleaned up in Pamela Angelakis’ contract includes an update stating she will be acting superintendent from July 1 through July 14.

It also states that her pay will be in accordance with the position those two weeks, before new Interim Superintendent Garry Murphy starts his position July 15 . 

The contract will also explicitly state that she will assume front-line superintendent duties on the days that interim, part-time superintendent Garry Murphy is not working.

Language to be cleaned up in Superintendent Celli’s contract indicates she will be paid $82,500, not $85,000, for her new half-time position.

The new position’s duties include overseeing the plan to address elementary school building needs and pursuing grants and Chapter 70 funding and other projects as we deem necessary, the chairman said.

It also indicates that if the superintendent’s salary is reduced, then her hours will be reduced proportionately.

A provision in the contract calls for the superintendent’s salary to be reduced if she is employed outside the district and her total salary among the positions exceeds what she would have made as a fulltime Swampscott superintendent.

Another language change indicates that the special project superintendent’s office will be located at Hadley Elementary School, not in a town building.

Editor's note: To clarify, special projects Superintendent Celli's office was going to be at Town Hall in the next school year, as opposed to a school. That has changed.