...lead to head-scratching confusion

By ABBY FOX

The school committee’s vote Tuesday night – actually, three different motions and three votes – to rethink administrators’ salaries, left the few members of the public who were there with one question: what just happened? First, member Skip O’Day made a motion to give administrators a 2.4-percent raise this year and a 2.4-percent raise next year, with a fifteen-percent co-share this year and a 20 percent co-share next year, with $125 in buyback reductions the first year, followed by $500 the second year. He and member Merrill Friedemann thought administrators didn’t need to get the same 2.7-percent increase as the teachers have received.