By: Dan Sokil

The Souderton Area School Board, in a final item listed as an addendum to the board agenda Thursday night, approved the salaries of the principals throughout the school district.

When called for information on the approval today, district officials said they would release the information "within five business days, as allowed under the state Right to Know Law."

When a Reporter staff writer went to the district office and requested to look at the document detailing the salaries approved, he was denied any information, again saying that it would be provided within five business days.

Another call was placed to Charles Amuso, district superintendent, by The Reporter, and he again was asked why the district would not provide the information to the staff writer who was at the office.

He again stated that the district has the right to take the five days to respond.

When asked if he was at the school board meeting he replied that he was. When asked if he knew what salaries had been approved he again said that he did, but that he did not "have the information at my fingertips" and that it would be provided within the five days.

When asked why he did not want to release it and did he not think the taxpayers might be irritated to not have the information, the "five days" window again was noted. Amuso then said that it was not the administrators' salaries that had been approved, if that is what the paper thought.

When asked whose salaries had been approved, he replied, "All of the principals."

When asked when the administrators' salaries would be approved by the school board, he replied, "We don't know that."

When the information is released by the school district on the principals' salaries, it will be printed by The Reporter.