A recap of the July 16 combined workshop and regular meeting.
Ambridge School Board approved new hires, contracts and salary increases Wednesday for the 2014-15 school year.
The board voted to hire Noel Santini as guidance counselor and June Mueller as secretary to the director of professional services.
The board also voted 8-2 to advertise for a junior high principal with a salary not to exceed $75,000. School directors John Baker and Mary Jo Kehoe voted against the measure.
The board voted to hire Noel Santini as guidance counselor and June Mueller as secretary to the director of professional services.
The board also voted 8-2 to advertise for a junior high principal with a salary not to exceed $75,000. School directors John Baker and Mary Jo Kehoe voted against the measure.
The board approved the following salary increases:
In other business, the school board:
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- Voted 6-3 to approve increases for the district's administration. Board members Robert Keber, Kimberly Locher and Roger Kowal voted against the measure. Baker abstained because his wife is business manager Minnie Baker.
- Voted 9-0 to approve increases for food service department employees--cashiers, food service assistants and monitors-crossing guard, and custodial employees who have reached the top of the substitute and part-time non-bargaining unit employees pay rate schedule. Also approved salary increases for confidential secretaries and secretarial stipend positions.
- Voted 7-2 to approve payment of 2014-15 stipends to the JROTC instructors. Board members Kowal and Locher voted no.
In other business, the school board:
- Approved a one-year technology contract with Communications Consulting Inc. of Warrendale for $60,000.
- Ratified the adoption of textbooks. The total cost to the district, including free materials and estimated shipping and handling, will not exceed $449,406 for the K-6 Reading Wonders and WonderWorks series and the K-5 My Math 2013 and Real World Problem Solving Reader series textbooks.
- Approved a resolution authorizing Community Advocates for Education (CAFÉ) to proceed with establishing an education foundation.
- Accepted a $500 First Energy Corp. STEM grant received by Don Ayers, who teaches eighth grade Integrated Science and Honors classes at the junior high school. Students will build a simulator of a nuclear reactor to understand the concept of a controlled nuclear decay, and how this decay is controlled. The demonstration and experiment will be an example of a reaction with few neutrons released with each atom’s decay.
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