PROFESSIONAL AGREEMENT

THIS AGREEMENT IS MADE AND ENTERED INTO this fourth day of January, 2010 by and between the Montville Board of Education (hereinafter referred to as the "Board") and PAMELA W. AUBIN (hereinafter referred to as the "Superintendent").

BOARD OF EDUCATION MONTVILLE, CONNECTICUT EMPLOYMENT It is hereby agreed by and between the Board of Education of the Town of Montville (hereinafter call the "Board") and PAMELA W. AUBIN (hereinafter called the "Superintendent") that the said Board in accordance with its action pursuant to Section 10-157 of the Connecticut General Statutes, on the fourth day of January 2010, has and does hereby employ the said PAMELA W. AUBIN as Superintendent of Schools of Montville and that PAMELA W. AUBIN hereby accepts employment as Superintendent of Schools of Montville upon the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth. TERM The term of said employment is for three (3) years, from July 1, 2010, to June 30, 2013. The Superintendent and the Board of Education agree they shall adhere to the following procedures to extend the Superintendent's employment under this contract for an additional period of three (3) years. A. Prior to the end of the first year of the agreement, the Board of Education, at the request of the Superintendent, may vote for a new three-year agreement. B. Prior to the end of the second year of the agreement, the Board of Education shall vote for a new three-year agreement. At least three (3) months prior to the end of the second year of a three-year agreement, the Superintendent shall notify the Board that her contract is about to expire and shall provide the Board this contract clause. Anything in this paragraph to the contrary notwithstanding, the provisions of termination shall take precedence, and the Superintendent's employment may be terminated under the provisions of said section. TERMINATION A. The parties may, by mutual consent, terminate the contract at any time. B. The Superintendent shall be entitled to terminate the contract upon written notice of ninety (90) days, except that the ninety-day notice is not required if termination is part of an action to implement a new contract, in which case oral notice by the Superintendent, duly witnessed and recorded in the minutes, is acceptable.

C. The Board may terminate the contract of employment during its term for one or more of the following reasons: (1) Inefficiency or incompetence; (2) Insubordination against reasonable rules of the Board of Education; (3) Moral misconduct; (4) Disability as shown by competent medical evidence; (5) Other due and sufficient cause. In the event the Board seeks to terminate the contract for one of the above reasons, it shall serve on the Superintendent written notice that termination of her contract is under consideration. Such notice shall be accompanied by a written statement of reasons. Within fifteen (15) days after receipt from the Board of written notice that contract termination is under consideration, the Superintendent may file with the Board a written request for a hearing before the Board which shall be held within twenty (20) days after receipt of such request. The Board shall render its decision within fifteen (15) days of such hearing and shall send a copy of its decision setting forth the reasons and evidence relied on to the Superintendent. The Board's decision shall be based on the evidence presented at the hearing. Such hearing may be in executive or public session, at the option of the Superintendent. The Superintendent shall have the right to her own counsel, at her own expense. Any time limits established herein may be waived by mutual agreement of the parties. If the Superintendent is terminated on account of disability as shown by competent medical evidence, the Board shall pay the accumulated sick leave, vacation, and insurance benefits provided in this agreement. PROFESSIONAL NEGOTIATION A. The parties hereto recognize the need to anticipate future agreements and Town and Board budgetary requirements. B. During negotiations, the Board and the Superintendent shall exchange points of view and proposals and counter-proposals. Either party may, if it so desires, utilize the services of outside consultants, provided, however, that if such consultants are to be present at negotiations, the other party shall be advised at least five (5) days beforehand. The aforementioned "other party" may then be entitled to have consultants without giving notice. It is agreed that both parties shall negotiate in good faith.

PERSONAL DAYS
A. The Superintendent shall be allowed eight (8) days personal leave, with no pay

deductions for any one of the following reasons: 1. Death, illness or marriage in the immediate family 2. Religious requirements 3. Legal requirements 4. College graduation of Superintendent or the spouse or children of Superintendent B. Immediate family consists of spouse, father, mother, son and daughter, grandparents, grandchildren, sister, brother, father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, son-in-law, and daughter-in-law, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, step-children, step-parents, and step-grandparents.
C. Upon request the Board is authorized to grant additional days leave for any reason they

believes meritorious in addition to those listed in Paragraphs A and B above. SICK LEAVE The Superintendent shall begin this agreement with sixty (60) days of sick leave and beginning with the subsequent year of employment shall be entitled to twenty (20) days of sick leave in each school year. Unused sick leave shall be accumulated from year to year to a maximum of 225 days. CONFERENCE LEAVE A. The Board encourages the Superintendent to continue her professional development and expects her to participate in relevant learning experiences. Subject to budgeted appropriations, the Superintendent shall attend professional meetings at the local, state, and national level, the expenses to which shall be paid by the Board.
B. Such leave will be considered professional leave and will not be charged to the

Superintendent's personal days. GENERAL LEAVE Extended leaves, with or without salary, may be granted by the Board of Education for reasons the Board considers meritorious.

PROTECTION OF ADMINISTRATOR A. The Superintendent shall report immediately in writing to the Board of Education all cases of assault suffered by her in connection with her employment. B. Such report shall be forwarded to the Board which shall comply with any reasonable request from the Superintendent for information in its possession not privileged under law which relates to the incident or the persons involved. C. The Board shall protect and save harmless the Superintendent from financial loss and expense arising out of any claim by reason of alleged negligence or other act resulting in accidental bodily injury provided such Superintendent was acting in the discharge of her duties within the scope of her employment. PERSONAL INJURY BENEFITS A. Whenever the Superintendent is absent from school as a result of bodily injury caused by an accident arising out of and in the course of her employment, she shall be paid her full salary for a reasonable period of time less the amount of any worker's compensation award made for temporary disability due to said injury, and no part of such absence shall be charged to her annual or accumulated sick leave. B. The Board shall have the right to have the Superintendent examined by a physician designated by the Board for the purpose of establishing the length of time the Superintendent is temporarily disabled from performing her duties as a result of the injury. In the event the Superintendent is dissatisfied with the conclusions of such physician, the Superintendent shall have the right to be examined by a physician of her own choice. If the two (2) physicians conducting the examinations disagree as to the length of time that the Administrator is disabled from performing her duties as a result of the injury, a third doctor agreeable to the Board and the Superintendent shall examine the Superintendent and shall make a final and binding determination as to the length of the disability. The cost of the services of such third physician shall be divided equally between the Board and the Superintendent. C. In the event of any payment under this policy, the Board shall be subrogated to all the Superintendent's rights of recovery thereof against any person or organization and the Superintendent shall execute and deliver instruments and papers and do whatever else is necessary to secure such rights. The Superintendent shall do nothing after the injury to prejudice such rights. COURSE REIMBURSEMENT The Board of Education agrees to reimburse the Superintendent for course work at state universities. The Board will consider and authorize when possible reimbursement for course work and related expenses at private colleges/universities in appropriate subject areas. An appropriate subject area is defined as one that falls within the scope of the Superintendent's supervisory responsibilities.
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SUPERINTENDENT'S SALARY For the period July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011, the Superintendent's base salary consists of the sum of the following: A salary of one hundred and fifty eight thousand dollars ($158,000), An elective tax sheltered annuity of twelve thousand, six hundred and forty dollars (8%) of the base salary which the Superintendent will arrange to have contributed as an elective deferral in accordance with Section 403(b) (12) (A) (ii) of the Internal Revenue Code toward the purchase of a 403(b) annuity with a tax sheltered annuity company of her choice. The Superintendent's base annual salary for the second year (July 1, 2011 through June 30, 2012) of this Agreement shall consist of the sum of the following: a. A cash component in an amount to be determined based on an evaluation of the Superintendent's performance and achievement of the goals and objectives identified for the previous year by the Board and the Superintendent. b. An elective tax sheltered annuity in the amount of twelve thousand, six hundred and forty dollars (8%) which the Superintendent will arrange to have contributed as an elective deferral in accordance with Section 403(b) (12) (A) (ii) of the Internal Revenue Code toward the purchase of a 403(b) annuity with a tax sheltered annuity company of her choice. SAVINGS The Board agrees to permit voluntary payroll deductions for the Superintendent who enrolls in the Dime Bank. TAX SHELTERED ANNUITY PLAN A. B. The Superintendent shall be eligible to participate in a tax sheltered Annuity Plan established pursuant to the Internal Revenue Code. The Board shall be held harmless for any investments made to any authorized or unauthorized tax sheltered annuity agents, after the monies have been received, as well as for any investments made by such agents. The Board does not sanction or attest to the fiduciary soundness of any authorized or unauthorized tax sheltered annuity. INSURANCE BENEFITS The Board shall provide the following insurance benefits or their equivalents (as per following) for the Superintendent with the Board paying eighty-two and a one-half percent (82.5%) of the premium cost for the duration of the contract and the Superintendent paying the remaining seventeen and one-half percent (17.5%).
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A. Benefit Coverage
1. The Superintendent will be provided with individual, individual plus one, or family

health insurance coverage under a PPO Option Plan offered by Anthem BC/BS. 2. Blue Cross Full Service Dental Plan for the individual and family with the additional Basic Benefits Rider C periodontics and the additional Basic Benefits Rider C and the additional Basic Benefits Rider A.
3. Group Life Insurance coverage of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) of

benefit coverage.
4. The Board will provide the Superintendent with a Disability Income Policy No. D1 615

301, with Northwestern Mutual, currently in effect for the Superintendent, not to exceed a premium of $5,000. B. Insurance Waiver Notwithstanding the above, effective with the execution of this agreement, the Superintendent may voluntarily elect to waive in writing all health insurance coverages outlined above and, in lieu thereof, shall receive an annual payment of three thousand dollars ($3,000) for family or member plus one election or fifteen hundred ($1,500) for individual coverage. Payment to the Superintendent waiving such coverage shall be made at the conclusion of the fiscal year during which insurance was waived and is subject to applicable tax laws.
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2. Where a change in the Superintendent's status prompts the Superintendent to resume Board-provided insurance coverage, the waiver may, on written notice to the Board, be revoked. Upon receipt of revocation of the waiver, insurance coverage shall be reinstated as soon as possible; subject, however, to any regulations or restrictions, including waiting periods, which may then be prescribed by the appropriate insurance carriers. Depending upon the effective date of such reinstated coverage appropriate financial adjustments shall be made between the Superintendent and the Board to ensure that the Superintendent has been compensated, but not overcompensated, for any waiver elected in this section. 3. Notice of intention to waive insurance coverage must be sent to the Business Manager no later than April 1, to be effective in the following contract year. 4. Waiver of premium procedures must be acceptable to the applicable insurance carrier.
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ANNUAL WORK SCHEDULE 12 months contract with vacation as follows This provides twenty-seven (27) days vacation, non-accumulative for purposes of pay out. Vacation may be accumulated and taken as vacation time in subsequent years. TRAVEL ALLOWANCE The Board agrees to reimburse the Superintendent for all her travel expenses incurred in the performance of her duties under this contract, and agrees that for the use of her own automobile, within Connecticut, she shall receive as such reimbursement four thousand, eight hundred dollars ($4,800). For use of her own automobile outside of Connecticut on school business, she shall be reimbursed at the Board of Educations allowable rate, on vouchers to be submitted by her. The Superintendent shall be reimbursed for out-of-pocket expenses incurred in the performance of her professional duties. SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS The Board recognizes that the Superintendent may be invited from time to time to participate in special educational assignments outside of Montville. The Board reserves the right to consider such assignments and will approve them so long as such assignments are consistent with the Superintendent's duties and obligations under this agreement. The Superintendent may so participate and retain any honorarium for such participation without affecting the rate or amount of compensation payable to her under this agreement. From time to time the Superintendent shall bring to the Board such assignments which she wishes to undertake. PROTECTION AGAINST LEGAL PROCEDURE The School District agrees, as a further condition of this employment contract, that it shall defend, hold harmless, and indemnify the Superintendent of Schools from any and all demands, claims, suits, actions, and legal proceedings brought against the Superintendent of Schools in her individual capacity, or in her official capacity as agent and employee of the District, provided the incident arose while the Superintendent of Schools was acting within the scope of her employment. If in the good faith opinion of the Superintendent of Schools, a conflict exists as regards the defense to such claim between the legal position of the Superintendent of Schools and the legal position of the District, the Superintendent of Schools may engage counsel in which event the District shall indemnify the Superintendent of Schools for the costs of legal defense. AGREEMENT This contract contains the entire agreement between the parties. Commencing upon signing, it supersedes all prior agreements between the parties.

DURATION This agreement shall become effective July 1, 2010, and shall remain in full force and effect until June 30, 2013. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Parties hereunto caused these presents to be executed by their proper officers, hereunto duly authorized, and their seals affixed hereto as of the date and year first above written. MONTVILLE BOARD OF EDUCATION _______________________________________ David C. Rowley Chair, Montville Board of Education ____________________________________ Margaret E. Tripp Notary _____________________________ Pamela W. Aubin Superintendent of Schools _____________________________ Date