Board OKs softball project

BY ERIC HRIN (STAFF WRITER)
Published: March 18, 2010

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TROY - The Troy Area School Board on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for an improvement planned for the softball complex at Troy Elementary Center East.

According to maintenance director David Blair, the girls' softball team wants to build a concrete pad measuring roughly 30 feet by 60 feet for two batting cages.

He said the cost is roughly $7,000 and the team plans to raise money for the project. He said the board was only voting on the project, not the money. He said the team will try to raise as much money as it can.

Blair said the cost estimate is for the pad, cages and steel poles.

In other business at the board's regular meeting, the board approved preliminary landscaping projects.

One is to stabilize a bank behind the cafeteria and one is to put down stone on a dirt area by the high school, according to district business manager Kirsten Bagley. Some other landscaping work at the middle school has been completed, Blair said.

Blair added that the old maintenance building located beside TECE will be torn down. He said it has deteriorated and a new maintenance facility under Memorial Auditorium will be used in its place.

The board gave the OK to raze the old building. Calvin Bristol Excavating will tear it down for a little less than $10,000, Blair said. The company was the lowest of four bidders.

In another matter, when asked for comment, Bagley said she didn't know the status of the search for a new district superintendent.

At the meeting, the board agreed to terminate the services of acting superintendent Donald C. Butler, on or before June 18, 2010. She explained that he is retired, and was only allowed to come back for a year to serve in the interim position.

The district has been without a permanent superintendent since former superintendent Robert Grantier stepped down.

The board approved several personnel matters, including:

- The retirement of Sharon Jones, kindergarten teacher, effective June 11;

- The resignations of Jeremy Kulago, assistant football coach, effective Feb. 22, and Darin Young, assistant track coach, effective Feb. 23;

- Support staff employments of William Kelly, district web master, at a salary contract of $1,500 a year; Amy Sullivan, 4-hour casual cafeteria employee, at $8.12 an hour; and Donna Roberts, three-hour casual cafeteria employee, at $8.12 an hour. All had effective dates of March 17;

- Substitute support staff employments of Sheila Minnick, Burr Spencer, Deborah Armison, Beth Chamberlain, Helen Ackley and Bobbi Jo Anderson;

- Supplemental contracts for Ashley Hickok and Ronald Bellinger, assistant track coaches, at salary contracts of $2,915; and

- A position elimination for a full-time custodian and a position creation of three four-hour casual custodians.

The board also approved the refund of 2009-10 real estate taxes to Tina Ratcliff of Oceanside, Calif. for a parcel in Granville Township in the amount of $350.20 due to a change in assessment.

The board approved a request from Melanie Corbett, high school special education teacher, for an educational sabbatical leave for the second half of the 2010-2011 school year.

Eric Hrin can be reached at (570) 297-5251; e-mail: reviewtroy@thedailyreview.com.

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