JENNIFER MOODY For Mid-Valley Media Rob Saxton will become the interim superintendent for Greater Albany Public Schools for up to a year, the Albany school board decided in a special meeting Monday. Board members voted 4-1, with Michael Thomson dissenting, to extend the interim offer to Saxton, effective immediately, for 190 contract days at a base salary of $150,000. Saxton will be out of state for much of August but said he would delegate instructions to staff and would be back for all-staff inservice in September. Saxton answered questions from board members and written questions from the community for a little more than an hour during Monday's meeting. Among other things, he said he would not support the planned change to class schedules this fall at South Albany and West Albany high schools.