By Amber Cox, Special Writer
SPRINGFIELD — The school board unanimously approved contracts for a new superintendent and business administrator March 20, pending approval by the county superintendent.
Charmette Long-Vernon was named business administrator and board secretary at an annual salary of $80,000. Her contract would run from July 1, 2012, to June 30, 2013.
Edith Conroy has been approved as superintendent and principal with an initial annual salary of $122,500. Her contract would run from July 1 to June 30, 2015.
Ms. Conroy has been serving as director of special services in the Robbinsville School District.
”We’ve finally come to a decision to appoint the two leading candidates of the two positions,” said Interim Superintendent Joseph Miller. “Over the past several days, we hammered out the details of the contracts for these two individuals.”
Ms. Long-Vernon has been serving as the business administrator at PleasanTech Academy Charter School.
The search for a full-time superintendent began in August.
Mr. Miller’s contract, along with current part-time business administrator Ed Kent’s, is up June 30.
A reception was planned for Ms. Conroy and Ms. Long-Vernon on Tuesday night after the Register-News deadline. The district’s budget public hearing was set to follow the reception.
In other news, the board unanimously approved the special education extended year summer program and its staff the same night.
”This is something we’ve been doing every year for the past many years,” Mr. Miller said. “The purpose of this is to target those classified students who have some learning disabilities who kind of get out of the habit of school, and come September, it takes weeks to re-educate them and get them back in the swing of things.”
Mr. Miller explained this program allows those students to continue with school during the summer and allows them to start at the next educational level in September.
It is a 15-day program for four hours a day.

