Dr. Julie Synyard, an assistant superintendent with the Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified School District, was officially hired this week as the new superintendent of the Martinez Unified School District.
A contract running through the 2023-2024 school year was approved unanimously by the Martinez district board.
“I just look forward to all the learning opportunities,” Synyard told district board members.
Synyard takes over for Christopher “CJ” Cammack, who had been the Martinez schools superintendent for four years when in July he accepted the superintendent’s job with the Fremont Unified School District.
Martinez school board President Jonathan Wright said Cammack left just when the district — like almost all others — was planning for distance learning under the ongoing coronavirus health crisis.
“We hope you’ll help us navigate the current times we’re in, with the COVID-19 pandemic,” Wright told Synyard.
He also praised Assistant Superintendent Helen Rossi for leading the Martinez district in key planning over the summer and start of school during “these most trying of times.”
Synyard had been in the Cotati-Rohnert Park district since November 2015; before that, she had spent two years as principal of Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley.
Her new contract calls for an annual salary of $210,000 per year.
She will be enrolled in the State Teachers Retirement System. She officially begins her new job Oct. 12.
seems like an outrageous salary does it?
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Yes , it does! Especially because It is such a small district.
Word on the street Cammack left for Fremont to get more money . The Greed is unbelievable
Is getting fair market value for your services greedy in the private sector or only when you work for the public sector? Good on CJ for promoting to a job that is better for his family. He deserves it. He was a great superintendent in Martinez. If MUSD could have matched the pay I am sure he would have stayed.
All the best.
How much of a retirement package did Cammack get? Now he gets a great salary from Fremont. What a wonderful world we live in.
I assume that is the going rate for superintendents in the area. I never begrudge someone for getting more money. If your employer offered you more money I doubt you’d turn it down.
If not this election it will be the next. Martinez will put another bond or parcel tax for the children claiming the schools need the money. And yet, it continues to pay teachers and other staff the lowest in the area.