Eatontown Board of Ed Quickly Settles Admin Contracts

Both sides of the negotiating table involved in the recently settled Eatontown Administrators' Association (EAA) contract offered praise for the other at Monday night’s Board of Education meeting.

Schools Superintendent Scott McCue jokingly described the process as the  “quickest and easiest contract negotiation in history.”

The association, which consists of three of the district’s building principals and the supervisor of special services, agreed to the terms of a three-year contract presented by the board in just one meeting, according to board and negotiating team member Bob English.

All members of the association agreed to a wage freeze in the first year followed by a one percent increase in the 2012-2013 school year and a two percent salary rise in 2013-2014.

English said the EAA understood that salary increases would be limited by an increasingly limited amount of aid the district will receive next year along with the two percent cap on the amount of property tax that can be levied for funding.

The district eliminated its curriculum supervisor position last year and reduced its business administrator's role to part-time in an effort to reduce salary costs, he said.

Ronald S. Danielson, EAA president and principal of the Eatontown Middle School publicly commended the board and the negotiating team for the quick resolution.

“I’ve got to give them credit, “ said Eatontown Board of Education President Mark Kramer of the EAA, “they stepped up.”