Bodie

Superintendent Kathleen Bodie has a new three-year contract starting July 1 that will increase her annual income $14,240, from $167,260 to $181,500.

The salary increases are $5,240 in fiscal 2014; $3,500 in fiscal 2015; and $5,500 in fiscal 2016.

The School Committee approved the contract, 6-0, without comment following an executive session April 11. Kirsi Allison-Ampe was absent.

The increases that Bodie is receiving are “with the range of what we are seeing,” Glenn Koocher, executive director of the Massachusetts Association of School Committees, said Wednesday, May 1.

Receipt of the Bodie’s new contract was delayed because officials were away during the April break.

For the current fiscal year, Town Manager Adam Chapdelaine has a salary of $161,160 annually, says Caryn Malloy, town personnel director.

The manager has 5 percent of the base pay routed to a deferred-compensation plan, a provision that depends on a positive performance review.

He also gets $2,000 a year for a long-term disability policy as well as full use of a town vehicle.

The manager’s contract runs through Feb. 24, 2015. “Compensation can be annually evaluated after the completion of a performance evaluation process.” Malloy wrote May 1.

The positions of superintendent and manager in Arlington, a city-sized town of 42,000 people, fulfill differing roles, and their annual compensations cannot be directly compared.

Salary history, comparative data

Here is some history of Bodie’s administrative tenure, starting with the amounts of her last contract, according to the school budget for each year.

For the current fiscal year, 2013, her compensation is $167,260.

The year before, it was $160,000.

In fiscal 2011, it was $155,000.

Comparative salary data for superintendents from 2011 provided by a state source provides context to Bodie’s compensation numbers.

At the top end were Lexington, at $248,660; Newton, $230,000; and Cambridge, $221,000.

Below that were Winchester, $178,000; Belmont, $175,000; and Somerville, $174,820. All at $170,000 were school chiefs in Acton-Boxborough, Burlington and Lowell.

Those paid $160,000 were superintendents in Medway, Canton, Greater Lowell Regional, Mendon-Upton, New Bedford, Newburyport, North Attleboro and Reading.

Those paid similarly to Bodie in fiscal 2001 were Medford, $158,000; Stoneham, $153,913; Woburn, $153,000;
and Minuteman Regional, $152,770.

Superintendents paid at the lowest level in 2011 were those in Littleton, $93,300; Nahant, $50,000; Hancock, New Ashford, $39,000; and Farmington River Regional, $31,200.

Last November, the School Committee gave Bodie top marks in a public evaluation.

The committee voted Nov. 27, to enter into talks for a new pact as the current agreement ends next June 30.

To provide context, here are some key events related to Bodie occurring since 2007:

Bodie, named an assistant superintendent in 2007, was elevated to superintendent in 2008 following the departure of Nate Levenson.

In October 2008, she was named interim superintendent in a vote of 5-0-1.

In January 2009, the committee voted to extend her contract to June 30, 2010.

In February 2010, after a search committee chose eight candidates for superintendent, Bodie did not say whether she had applied.

A little more than a week later, Bodie was reported to be a finalist for the top school job in Swampscott.

Five days after that, three finalists were named, and Bodie bowed out.

Late that month, the two remaining finalists withdrew and Bodie accepted the permanent position.

Her evaluations were reported in April 2010.

In November 2011, the School Committee evaluated Bodie in public for the first time.