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FUHSD approves 3% raise for superintendent

One year into her tenure at Fallbrook Union High School District, superintendent Ilsa Garza-Gonzalez is getting a 3% raise.

The FUHSD board of trustees unanimously approved the salary increase, which the superintendent’s employment contract stipulated she would receive upon a satisfactory employment evaluation.

Garza-Gonzalez received her first satisfactory performance evaluation at the June 22 FUHSD board meeting. She has been FUHSD’s superintendent since July 2019, and previously worked for six years as director of administrative services and for more than 20 years as a teacher, principal and administrator at the Jurupa School District in Riverside County.

FUHSD reviews its superintendent’s contract annually, and if applicable, will amend it after a performance evaluation.

Garza-Gonzalez’s 3% raise amounts to a $5,400 salary increase, for a new salary of $185,400.

For comparison, Candace Singh, superintendent of Fallbrook Union Elementary School District, received a 5% increase back in January and earns more than $330,000 annually.

Garza-Gonzalez earns significantly less than her predecessor at FUHSD, Hugo Pedroza, who earned more than $240,000 per year. Pedroza was terminated by the FUHSD board in 2018 without cause, before three new school board members elected in November 2018 who were critics of administrative costs could take office. That decision allowed Pedroza to collect a full year’s worth of severance pay.

In addition to granting her raise, FUHSD’s board extended Garza-Gonazalez’s current contract by one school year, through June 30, 2023.

“Well deserved to Ms. Garza-Gonzalez,” Diane Summers, board president of FUHSD, said.

Will Fritz can be reached by email at [email protected].

 

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