County school boards reorganize for 2018
For area school boards, the first week in December signals changes as they hold their annual reorganization meetings. The five school boards in Greene County made the following adjustments for 2018:
Carmichaels
The Carmichaels Area School Board retained Thomas Ricco as president and Edmond McIntire as vice president.
Davis & Davis of Uniontown will stay on as district solicitor.
School director Ron Ferek was selected as district legislative representative and Cheryl Voytek as strategic plan representative. The board welcomed new director Dr. Jason Matyus.
The board’s schedule will remain the same, meeting on the third Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. in the middle-senior high school media center.
Central Greene
Elizabeth Hellems was elected president of the nine-member board, while Sharon Bennett was voted in as the board’s new vice-president.
Kirk King remains as solicitor while Bridget Montgomery was voted in as board secretary.
Helen K. McCracken, Ed.D., was hired as the school district superintendent in November.
Wayne Knisley and Barbara Hartlaub were recently voted in as new board members, joining Hellems, Bennett, Montgomery, Andrew Corfont, Rachael Shultz, John Bristor and Sarah Hughes.
Monthly regular board meetings are held in the board office in the administration building, located at 205 S. Cumberland Street in Waynesburg, at 6 p.m. the third Tuesday of each month; and the committee board meetings are held in the same location on the second Tuesday of each month.
Jefferson-Morgan
Longtime school director Mark Pochron takes over as president of the Jefferson-Morgan School Board, a seat he has held previously during his 26-year tenure on the board.
Bob Mitchell was re-elected vice president and Donna Brown was named secretary, a position vacated by Pochron. The district retained the services of solicitor Ernest DeHaas of Radcliffe & DeHaas of Uniontown.
Brown was appointed to another term as a district representative to the Greene County Career & Technology Center joint operating committee, with Deborah Phillips named an alternate.
Board meetings will remain the third Monday of each month at 6:30 p.m. in the elementary school library, with the exceptions of January and February (third Tuesday) and May (second Monday).
Southeastern Greene
School board leadership remains intact with Janet Pennington and Gary Moser continuing to serve as president and vice president, respectively.
Joe Spiker was appointed as district representative to the Greene County Career & Technology Center joint operating committee. New school director Sheri Garlick was welcomed to her seat on the board. Attorney Timothy Berggren of Washington was retained as district solicitor.
The board will continue to meet the third Monday of the month at 7 p.m. in the Mapletown Jr. Sr. High School cafeteria, with the exception of January and February, when the board will hold the meetings on the fourth Monday.
West Greene
Joe Coss and Ryan Crouse were elected to the board and Daniele Frye and Chad Scott were re-elected, with Chad Scott serving as president, Timothy Mankey serving as vice-president and Butch Cassiday serving as secretary.
The remaining members of the nine-member board were retained.
The West Greene School District Board of Education has set the 2018 meeting schedules as follows: The regular board meeting will be held on the fourth Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. with the pre-board meeting at 6 p.m. Meetings will be held at the Middle-Senior High School Cafeteria.
Exceptions to the schedule are: The meeting for November will be held on Nov. 15 due to the Thanksgiving holiday; and December’s meeting will be held Dec. 6 with the regular board meeting to immediately follow the reorganization meeting, which will begin at 6 p.m.
Committee meetings will be held the second Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. in the Middle-Senior High School Cafeteria.
There will be no committee meeting in December.