Fairfield City Schools will change how it evaluates its treasurer and superintendent, giving those officials the first evaluations they’ve had in some time.

The board of education will consider revising its policy at its Nov. 15 meeting so the superintendent and treasurer are evaluated at the same time, with those evaluations completed by the end of 2012.

“One of the reasons for doing this is that the timeline for (evaluating) the treasurer recently changed, and the last two superintendents here have all had different models (of evaluation). The board of education wanted the tools to be similar in nature,” Superintendent Paul Otten said.

The superintendent and treasurer will be evaluated separately and using different standards, he said, but the evaluations will take place at the same time. In November, the evaluation tools will be distributed to the board members, and those evaluations must be returned by the end of the month.

The board will meet in executive session Dec. 6 to discuss the evaluations, and then on Dec. 20, goals for next year will be outlined. After that, the evaluations will be available for public viewing, Otten said.

The policy is expected to be voted on at the Nov. 15 board meeting.

This would be the first time Otten has been evaluated since being named superintendent in August 2011. Treasurer Nancy Lane has had her position since 2005, but has not had an evaluation since March 2010.

“I guess because there was no raise being considered and my contract dates changed,” Lane said when asked why she had not received an evaluation in the past two years. “My old contract dates ran from January to December. In January 2011, I began a new contract with an abbreviated year of January to July, then a new contract year from August 2011 to July 2012.”

“The real important thing is that it’s a tool that allows us the opportunity to provide good feedback,” said board president Jerome Kearns. He added that the evaluations would create concrete goals for both district leaders.