Mathews

WHAT: Board of Education meeting Wednesday

PRESENT: Mark Haddle, Kenneth Wallace, Michele Garman, Beth Haddle and Joel Polonus

The board:

• Held a brief re-employment hearing for Carla Pacileo as a speech pathologist. The board unanimously agreed to bring her back, and the decision will be finalized at the board’s Aug. 20 meeting. The board accepted her retirement at last month’s meeting.

• Heard from Superintendent Russell McQuaide that the former Currie Elementary building was sold Monday for $209,000. The district will net $188,000 from the sale.

• Heard from McQuaide that the Sheridan Drive sanitary project will be underway soon, pending the county commissioners’ acceptance of the bid on it. McQuaide said he was “a little nervous” about opening and closing school daily, as the road houses Mathews Elementary School at the end of it. However, the project isn’t expected to be in the middle of the road.

• Approved abolishing the elementary guidance counselor position and transferring Samantha Lantz to seventh-grade English and Language Arts.

• Accepted educational aide Julie Shaffer’s resignation.

• Approved employing Klayton Brown as an educational aide at a rate of $14.48 an hour. He will be placed at the Fairhaven School, following Fairhaven’s mandate that districts are to hire educational aides for certain cases, according to McQuaide. If the student he is assigned to is absent, Brown will be absorbed into the system, meaning he still works, he added.

• Approved increasing breakfast prices at the elementary, middle and high school by 25 cents, making them $1.50, $3 and $3.50, respectively.

— Brandon Cantwell