By Linda Conner Lambeck

WESTPORT —  The Board of Education voted 7-0 this week to approve a tentative agreement with the 40-member Westport Intermediate Administrators Association.

A three-year deal will give Westport public schools’ principals, assistant principals, directors and coordinators raises of 2.5 percent in each of the three years at maximum step level starting in July 2023.

The $584,000 cost to the district will be somewhat offset by a switch in health insurance plans, Assistant Supt. of Schools John Bayers told the school board Monday.

The contract reflects roughly the same pay increases approved earlier this year for Supt. of Schools Thomas Scarice, as well as other top administrators and non-union staffers.

Overall, Bayer said the deal was reached in fairly quick fashion.

The proposed pact now goes to the Representative Town Meeting for review. If the RTM takes no action, the contract will take effect.

Jacquelyn Mellin, president of the association and a Bedford Middle School assistant principal, when contacted had no comment.

Freelance writer Linda Conner Lambeck, a reporter for more than four decades at the Connecticut Post and other Hearst publications, is a member of the Education Writers Association.