In split vote, Fallbrook Union Elementary School District board approves raises for superintendent, other administrators

The Fallbrook Union Elementary School District voted at its meeting Tuesday, Jan. 21, to approve a new two-year contract with its classified employees’ union granting them a 4% raise – and also voted to give the superintendent and other administrators a similar pay boost.

The union contract passed unanimously, but the administrative salary increase had one dissenter: board member Caron Lieber.

“My position is the superintendent has already received her raise in July, it’s a 5% raise,” Lieber said at Tuesday’s board meeting, reading from a statement she prepared beforehand. “She’s at the top of...