A five-year contract extension was approved Monday for Nazareth Area School District's business administrator Bernadine Rishcoff.
Nazareth Area School District is so pleased with the work of business administrator Bernadine Rishcoff that it has approved a five-year contract extension that doesn’t begin until the end of the upcoming school year. The contract extension, which the school board approved Monday night, runs from July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2019. Rishcoff's salary under the extension will be $140,000, according to superintendent Dennis Riker. "As superintendent, I am very pleased to have Ms. Rishcoff remain in the district as a part of my administrative team," Riker said in an e-mail to Patch. "She has done an excellent job in assisting our district in navigating through a very difficult economic period." Rishcoff, who grew up in Allentown, will celebrate…
Nazareth Area School District's proposed 2013-2014 budget calls for a 3.8 percent increase in spending, caused largely by higher salary and benefit costs.
The Nazareth Area School District is looking at a proposed 1.9 percent increase in property taxes to help fund a 2013-2014 budget that calls for a 3.8 percent increase in spending. The spending increase is caused largely by higher salary and benefit costs, especially higher pension contributions. In fact, pension contributions are forecast to rise significantly in upcoming years. This year’s contribution rate to the Public School Employees’ Retirement System is 12.36 percent. That amount would rise to 16.75 percent in the upcoming school year. The proposed $70.84 million budget calls for spending at each of the district’s six schools to be cut by 5 percent and for spending in various departments to stay the same as this year’s levels. The …
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Michael Vandever
7:25 am on Saturday, February 9, 2013
No wonder our taxes are so high. Where does she live? Does she live in Nazareth? more ›