Incoming Chilton County Schools Superintendent Tommy Glasscock will have a higher salary than his predecessor, Dave Hayden.

The Chilton County Board of Education voted Tuesday to set the superintendent’s annual salary at $100,000, effective Jan. 1, 2015.

The salary had to be set before Glasscock took office and will remain the same for his entire four-year term.

Hayden’s salary was set in 2010 when the board voted to set his at $95,500. Hayden’s salary stayed the same as his predecessor, Keith Moore.

Glasscock’s $4,500 increase was a topic of discussion with several board members during the regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday.

“I think the salary is high,” board member Pam Price said. “Especially when you consider no teachers got raises.”

Board member Jim Shannon said he would like to consider tabling the discussion until December.

“I think we can get a packaged deal that is better than what is being presented,” Shannon said.

Due to a motion already introduced for board members to approve the new salary of $100,000 plus any raises that public school employees might qualify for, Shannon’s suggestion of tabling the discussion could not be made into the form of a motion, until board members either approved or denied the motion to approve the salary.

Board members Lori Patterson, Curtis Smith, Keith Moore and Joe Mims voted in favor to set the new salary at $100,000.

Board members Shannon, Price and Linda Hand voted against the motion.

The motion carried with a vote of 4-3.

Board members also held the annual election of officers with board members selecting current president Lori Patterson to serve another term, and Joe Mims serving as the board’s vice president.

The board also voted to set the dates and times for the upcoming year of board meetings with the meetings continuing at 4 p.m. on the third Tuesday of every month.

A hearing was held during the meeting for a fifth grade teacher at Clanton Intermediate School who had been accused of standardized testing violations.

Hayden recommended prior to the hearing that the teacher be suspended for a period of three days without pay.

The teacher was allowed to address the board, as well as CIS Principal David Seale.

The hearing was held during the open meeting and Seale explained the alleged incidents occurred during April testing at the school.

Seale told the board that the proctor assigned to the teacher’s room reported there had been an “irregularity” in the room while the testing occurred.

Seale said the proctor claimed the teacher walked past a student and motioned to a test question, and bent down near a separate student and talked to them about re-thinking their answer, while the testing was taking place.

The proctor who made the initial claims to Seale was not present during the hearing at the board meeting.

The teacher provided her side of the story by explaining to the board that she noticed one of the students not answering the questions on the test sheet and bent down to tell the student to “try” and answer the questions.

The teacher said the separate incident with being accused of pointing to a test question stemmed from an interaction with the student prior to testing where the student continued asking questions regarding the test.

The teacher told the board she informed the student they wouldn’t be able to ask questions on the test, and the student became upset. The teacher said when she walked by the student’s desk she wanted to make sure the student was not still upset and used her hands on the test booklet to catch the attention of the student.

The board convened in executive session for about 10 minutes to discuss the matter, and voted after convening into regular session that based on the evidence presented, they would not suspend the teacher for three days without pay.

A second executive session was taken dealing with personnel issues directly after the first executive session was convened into regular session.

Board members voted after the second executive session to suspend Clanton Middle School teacher Thomas Hughes for a period of 20 days without pay (effective Nov. 19) for inappropriate comments to students and unwillingness to carry out the principal’s directive.

For more from Tuesday’s meeting, check www.clantonadvertiser.com or a future edition of the newspaper.