UPPER LAKE, Calif. – The boards of the new Upper Lake Unified School District and the existing high school district will meet this week to consider approving an agreement to cover the high school district's principal/superintendent serving both districts for a six-month period.

The Upper Lake Union High School Board will hold a special meeting at the school, 675 Clover Valley Road, at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 26, to consider just one item – approving the draft memorandum of understanding relating to interim responsibility for the district superintendent.

Separately, the Upper Lake Unified School District Board will hold a regular meeting at 5 p.m. Tuesday, also at the high school, with that agreement its main agenda item.

At the new board's meeting earlier this month, it voted unanimously to begin negotiations with Upper Lake Union High School District Principal/Superintendent Patrick Iaccino to act as interim superintendent of the district, as Lake County News has reported.

The MOU to go before the boards Tuesday is between the Upper Lake High Union High School District and the Upper Lake Unified School District, and will last from its date of acceptance until June 30, at which point the new district will stand alone with the high school and elementary districts consolidated within it.

“The parties agree that, pending full unification, Superintendent Iaccino shall continue to serve as the superintendent of the High School District,” the document states. “During that time, Supt. Iaccino shall also devote some time and provide some services to the Unified District to assist in the transition to full unification. Because of the benefits to both Districts from this joint service, the High School District agrees that, notwithstanding that Supt. Iaccino will provide such services to the Unified District, the High School District shall pay all costs in salary and benefits of for Supt. Iaccino. The parties acknowledge that Supt. Iaccino shall be paid one salary, at his current rate of total compensation, for which he will provide services to both Districts, as set forth in this paragraph.”

Also on the Upper Lake Unified School District agenda is a resolution authorizing Iaccino to sign orders and other documents on behalf of the new governing board from the period of Jan. 1 to June 30.

Other items on the new board's Tuesday evening agenda include review of the agenda for the board workshop planned for Saturday, Jan. 30; the superintendent's report; and board members' reports.

That board also will hold a closed session to discuss administrative configuration and the hiring of a chief business official.

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