Marilyn Dominick said she was acting on the advice of the district's former lawyer when she refused to make the agreement public.
View full sizeJordan Elbridge School Superintendent Marilyn Dominick asks a question of external auditor Micheal Lisson during a power point presentation at Wednesday night's school board meeting.Jordan, NY -- The superintendent of Jordan-Elbridge schools negotiated a $82,444 payment from the district to retire early, according to documents released today.
In the severance agreement, Superintendent Marilyn Dominick and the school board cited irreconcilable differences as her reason for stepping down Nov. 1 -- two years early.
The deal calls for Dominick to receive $82,444 paid into her retirement account, a tax-sheltered annuity, in addition to her salary for the first four months of the school year.
Dominick also wrote a letter to the community. She said she was acting on the advice of the district's former lawyer when she denied requests to make the agreement public earlier. A suspended district administrator went to court to force the district to release the document.
Dominick said she didn't want the fact that she had irreconcilable differences with the board known publicly, she wrote. "Those words are very hurtful to me, and I wanted to protect the community from exactly what is happening now," Dominick wrote.
The deal also calls for both sides to not make disparaging remarks about the other.
Jordan-Elbridge School Superintendent Marilyn Dominick's severance agreement
Jordan-Elbridge School Superintendent Marilyn Dominick's letter to the JE community