Board asked to give Clark $20,000 raise
Vallejo’s top school official is expected to receive a $20,000 raise and have his employment contract extended by several years during the school board meeting on Wednesday.
If approved by trustees, Vallejo City Unified School District Superintendent Adam Clark will start making an annual salary of $250,000 starting on Feb. 1.
When he began with the district in September 2017, Clark made a base salary of $230,000 each year, according to his current employment contract with the district. The new contract is retroactive to July 1, 2019 and runs through June 30, 2022.
A bump in Clark’s pay comes as the district attempts to remain fiscally solvent. Faced with decreasing enrollment, Clark, during the same board meeting Wednesday, will present his own recommendations on which district properties should be put up for sale. The Property Advisory Committee presented its final recommendations to the school
board on Jan. 15.
The committee recommended shuttering Lincoln and Beverly Hills elementary schools. Clark is recommending a split: Keep Lincoln open but close Beverly Hills. The committee suggested that students attending Beverly Hills can be transferred to Glen Cove, Pennycook, and Steffan Manor elementary schools.
The committee had recommended closing Lincoln and sending the students to to Mare Island Health and Fitness Academy and Farragut Elementary, while the district re-uses the property or sells it.
Clark agreed with the committee to declare the Crest Center, at 1220 Gateway Drive, and Grant Facility, located at 740 Fifth Avenue, as surplus district property that can be sold.
He is also recommending that the Vallejo City Unified School District offices on Mare Island be considered for closure or consolidation, and the former site of John Finney High School at 233 Hobbs St. be considered for future usage or be declared surplus and eventually sold.
The board appointed the nine-person committee to review and establish a list of surplus district property that can be sold. Clark previously said any money from selling district property would be used to pay down $15 million owed to the state of California.
The Vallejo City Unified School District Board of Education will meet at 6 p.m., Wednesday, inside the Governing Board Room, 665 Walnut Avenue on Mare Island in Vallejo.