The Vicksburg Warren School District Board of Trustees has extended Superintendent Chad Shealy’s contract an extra three years and increased his salary by 7 percent.

The board voted 5-0 at a special Tuesday morning meeting to extend Shealy’s contract through 2019. His raise increases his salary to $140,437.50.

The board in 2016 extended his contract one year and set his pay at $131,250. The raise is retroactive to January, board president Bryan Pratt said.

“We approved the raise at our January meeting, but we did not put down a date when it would start,” he said.

“Everyone on the board was satisfied with his performance and all the changes that have been made, and we wanted to keep that going,” Pratt said.

“When we look at all the programs that have been started like the Leader in Me, drop prevention, and the recognition we have received from organizations like the Ford Foundation, the Marshal Foundation and being one of the three school systems in Mississippi being named a District of Innovation, we needed to continue going in that direction.”

Shealy was hired in 2013 to replace former superintendent Dr. Elizabeth Swinford, who resigned to take a similar position with the Tuscaloosa, Ala. County School System.