The Chadron School Board has rolled over the 3-year contract of Superintendent Dr Caroline Winchester. Winchester’s salary will remain $113,000 a year plus benefits under the contract that now expires July 1st, 2016.

Board members Gary Hoffman and Dr Dave Johnson both voted against the renewal, but made it clear they had no objections to Winchester or the job she’s been doing, only to rolling over the contract.

They felt letting a contract run through or at least run down gave more incentive to both sides to continue to work for improvement.

Winchester scored high in her annual evaluation, completed by the school board late last year, but asked that her next evaluation be goal-based. A board committee is currently working on such a format.

Last night also saw the seating of the new Chadron school board…with Hoffman taking the oath of office as a new member. Sandy Roes was reelected as board president while Terri Haynes was elected as vice-president, who did not seek reelection to the board after serving for 10 years.