{"id":11284,"date":"2025-10-22T13:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/11284\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T13:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:27:07","slug":"parkland-school-board-approves-five-year-contract-extensions-for-superintendent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/11284\/","title":{"rendered":"Parkland School Board approves five-year contract extensions for superintendent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Parkland School Board unanimously approved five-year contract extensions for three of its four highest executives at Tuesday\u2019s board meeting.<\/p>\n<p>New contracts for Superintendent Mark Madson, Assistant Superintendent Michelle Minotti and Chief Financial Officer Leslie Frisbie will run from July 1, 2026, to June 30, 2031.<\/p>\n<p>Board President Robert Cohen spoke for the school board on the contract extensions, noting that they are the result of five months of negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been my honor to serve with Dr. Madson,\u201d Cohen said, adding that Madson brought significant experience and knowledge to the district. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2021\/03\/17\/parkland-school-board-elects-new-superintendent-to-begin-in-july\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madson came to Parkland from the Nazareth Area School District in 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has given 100-plus percent of his effort to continue to make our district successful,\u201d Cohen said.<\/p>\n<p>Cohen thanked Minotti for her decades of service to the district.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are served well,\u201d Cohen said, \u201cand it will again be my privilege and honor to be voting in favor of continuation of her contract.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frisbie\u2019s title will change from business administrator to chief financial officer. Cohen praised Frisbie\u2019s ability to ensure all board members understand what they\u2019re voting for.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to being a numbers cruncher par excellence, Leslie\u2019s financial acumen has been displayed over and over again in her tenure in this district,\u201d Cohen said. \u201cWe don\u2019t just get the numbers; we get what\u2019s behind the numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copies of the employee agreements were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>The latest available salary data from the Pennsylvania Department of Education and OpenPAGov is from the 2024-25 school year. That year Madson earned $210,000, Minotti earned $166,881 and Frisbie earned $180,006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Parkland School Board unanimously approved five-year contract extensions for three of its four highest executives at Tuesday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,227,433,182,139,3656,28,664,432,4129],"class_list":["post-11284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-education","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-north-whitehall-township","tag-pennsylvania","tag-south-whitehall-township","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-upper-macungie-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}