The Board of Directors of the Lopez Island School District has approved the renewal of a contract for school year 2012-2013 for current Superintendent Bill Evans.

The board voted unanimously to renew the part-time contract for Evans, including deleting the current status of “interim” from the contract. The new contract will be effective from July 1, 2012 to June 30, 2013.

Evans is employed by the district under the rules and regulations governing retire-rehire administrators and thus the board must consider renewal of his contract annually. Evans will be employed for the maximum 867 hours per year, approximately 108 days, allowed under the retire-rehire rules. The district elected to reduce the superintendent position to half-time three years ago, in a cost-saving measure to reduce the impact of a reduction of state funding.