BURTON SUPERINTENDENT SEPARATION AGREEMENT RELEASED

  

The terms of the separation agreement for Burton Superintendent Jim Palmer were released to KWHI today.  KWHI filed a public information request for the agreement after the Burton School Board approved it Monday evening.  Although there was no buy out of Palmer’s remaining contract, Palmer will be reimbursed for 2 separate items relating to his pay.

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Burton Superintendent Jim Palmer

An audit of Palmer’s pay during his 12 years with the district found that due to a bookkeeping error, he did not receive a $150 health insurance credit each month since 2006.  That totaled $15,000 and the reimbursement for it was made part of the separation agreement.

The other item that the school board considered was that Palmer had 120 days of leave accrued.  The District has no written policy to reimburse employees for this time, so most employees take the leave time with pay at the end of their tenure.  If Palmer did this, he could leave now and collect pay through June of 2015.  The board and Palmer agreed that in exchange for 2 months pay ($17,800.) that Palmer would continue at his duties till January 14,  2015 and take only the days between then and January 31st as leave.

Palmer pointed out that the separation agreement allows the school district to retain half of his salary in the budget and does not require the district to use reserve funds.  He felt that the agreement was amicable to both parties and put the District in a good position to begin the search for a new Superintendent.

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3 Comments

  1. So……… Mr. Palmer isn’t such a bad person after all!!!!! Sounds like he more than fair with his parting ways with Burton ISD. I personally have to hand it to the guy. He surrounded himself with good staff which intern turned around a district that was in a downward spiral which made him look good. The academics have improved and athletics have improved both of which makes a happy district and community. He knew how to play the game and my hats off to him!!!!

  2. So he has 120 days! Wow, that would be nice. Any regular working person never can accumulate that many days without them expiring! How many days per year did he GET? And why would you let your employees accumulate that much?

    1. If he is like most State employees, they accrue 8 hours sick time a month and their personal time starts out at 8 hrs a month and go up from there. We have one lady with 34 years of service who gets 20+ hours a month in personal time. So yes, it can accrue over time. The key is not abusing the time off that they give you, but to save it, either for a rainy day, or to retire early. A small perk of working for the state.

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