Lake Tahoe Unified School District Superintendent Dr. James Tarwater was given a pay raise and three-year extension to his contact during Tuesday’s school board meeting.
Dr. Tarwater, who joined the District on May 13, 2005, was given a satisfactory evaluation on his performance during closed session at the August 22, 2017 Board of Education meeting.
The Board unanimously approved a two-percent pay increase.
The Superintendent’s salary will now be $192,345.81 per year. His base salary was increased to $188,917.81 with an additional $3428 given for an earned Masters and Doctorate stipend. The raise is retroactive to January 1, 2017.
Tarwater’s contract extension now goes until June 30, 2020. His 2005 employment contract states if the evaluation is deemed satisfactory by the majority of Board Members, the term of the three-year agreement shall be automatically extended by Board Action for a period of at least one year.