Amador County – The Amador County Unified School District Board of Trustees on Wednesday will consider creating a Department Secretary position and also creating a position of a Principal in an “Educational Options Program” at the high school level for the school district’s independent school programs.

The School Board will consider a recommendation of Personnel Executive Director Nancy Gamache to create a position and job description of a Department Secretary. Gamache in a report to the board for Wednesday’s meeting said the District has a secretary job description that identifies duties associated with school site responsibilities.”

She said “District negotiating team met with the California School Employees Association Local 239 to negotiate a job description that addresses responsibilities associated with District departments.”

Gamache said the “Department Secretary job description more concisely identifies the secretarial duties associated with a District department. This will allow the District to recruit for future Secretarial Department vacancies.”

The School Board will consider eliminating 8 hours a day of one full time secretary, a classified employee, and also creating a new secretary position. It will also consider the job description for the Department Secretary, which is defined as an employee “under the supervision of the Department Director to perform a variety of complex secretarial work of high difficulty.”

The School Board will also consider a Principal position in an “Educational Options Program.” On March, the Board approved a resolution of intention to dismiss certificated employees, which included eliminating the Principal of Continuation and Alternative Education.

Gamache in a report said the “District is proposing to create a position of Principal of the Education Options Program. This employee will be directly responsible for the administration, management and operation of the Community Court School, North Star, Independence High, and the Adult Education program.

The job description, to be considered by the School Board, in brief was that the Principal “is directly responsible for the instructional program, and for the administration, management, and operation of all Educational Options Programs.”

An administrative salary schedule to be considered, showed the new principal position would work 217 days a year with a salary of $82,000.

The School Board meets in open session at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 9 in the Supervisors Chamber in Jackson.

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