Farmington School Board Renews Superintendent's Contract

The Farmington Board of Education unanimously voted to renew the superintendent's contract mid-June, adding another year to it.

Kathleen Greider, who is now on her fifth year with the district, will receive a three percent raise with the new contract. 

Board members commended her for "having a highly inclusive leadership style that elicits the best from everyone in our community on behalf of students," Board of Education Chairperson Mary Grace Reed wrote to Patch in an email. 

"Kathy has reached far beyond the walls of the Farmington school community to seek the knowledge of others to insure the needs of students are met with the most current thinking on the issues school communities are dealing with," Reed said. 

Greider was hired as Farmington superintendent "during the onset of one of the most depressed economies seen in generations," according to Reed, who noted that was after "the loss of 27 staff positions over two years."

"It was her work that guided the Board in navigating strategic and cost effect solutions that maintained reasonable budgets while regaining needed positions and programs and growing the district in areas that were in need such as technology," Reed said. "Kathy’s ability to effectively navigate the new state mandates that school boards are required to implement, especially mandates in the last two years, is unmatched."

Reed said that Greider represents the five-year goals  –  "collaboration and communication, critical thinking and reasoning, problem solving and innovation, self direction and resourcefulness."