Frazier School Board attends to personnel issues at meeting
PERRYOPOLIS- The Frazier School Board hired a middle school science teacher while increasing the rate of pay for a high school substitute economics teacher as the first in-service day for the 2003-2004 school year is set to get underway next week. The board on Tuesday voted 6-0 to both personnel issues during a special meeting in which members Kathy Burkholder, John Sterdis and John Keffer were absent.
Beginning on Monday, Amanda Felsher of Perryopolis will serve as the seventh-grade middle school science teacher at a contracted rate of $21,000 per year under a first-step bachelor’s degree.
Felsher, of Perryopolis, said she is looking forward to her new position and has served as a substitute in the school district during various school years.
In addition to Felsher, the board agreed to retain Amy Weaver as a long-term daily substitute of high school family and consumer sciences and increase her rate of pay to $100 a day excluding benefits.
The board also accepted the resignation of Susanne Kohler, a first-grade teacher at Perry Elementary School effective Aug. 6. Dr. Frederick Smeigh, superintendent, said a substitute teacher is currently serving in the position until the board hires someone to replace Kohler.
Lowery questioned whether or not Kohler would be eligible for early retirement incentives offered to staff members with a minimum of 30 years of service in the state’s public school employee’s retirement system.
The district entered into an agreement of such with the Frazier Education Association in May. Smeigh said the board would need to vote on the matter.