The Riverhead School District could have to pay an additional $20,000 to its former finance head while he’s brought back in this year to train his replacement, according to a school board meeting agenda and News-Review calculations.

The board was scheduled to vote at Wednesday night’s meeting on the proposed appointment of Joseph Singleton, who was hired in December as interim assistant superintendent for finance and operations, to a financial adviser position.

If approved, Mr. Singleton would be authorized to work 25 days between July 7 and December 30 for “the purpose of transition with the new superintendent of finance and operations and preparation of data for the proposed bond issue,” the agenda reads. District officials are considering putting an estimated $75 million bond for infrastructure upgrades up to public vote this fall.

Mr. Singleton, who retired from Suffolk BOCES in 1995, has so far this year earned a per diem rate of $800. In addition to his current role at Riverhead schools, Mr. Singleton collected an annual pension of $143,987 in 2010, according to seethroughny.net, a website that posts the salaries and pensions of all public employees in the state.

Under the proposed resolution, the district would have to pay Mr. Singleton a daily rate at the same time his replacement, Sam Schneider, gets paid, though district officials could not immediately confirm whether Mr. Singleton would still be making $800 a day…..

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