Board of Education Meeting

The February 8, 2016, Moon Area Board of Education meeting, called to order by the president with all nine directors present, combined routine business with presentations on the district's elementary configuration debate. The board approved a batch of financial and administrative actions on unanimous roll-call votes: the treasurer, investment, board summary, and activities reports; the monthly bills across the general, activity, and food-service funds; PlanCon Part K project refinancing for 2015 general obligation bonds; a Maher Duessel audit proposal for Moon and Crescent Township real estate tax collectors; the release of performance security tied to the Allard Intermediate and Brooks Elementary exterior work; a donation of up to 100 used desk chairs from Beaver Cable Company; and two professional-development conferences, including a PASBO trip to Hershey.

On personnel, the board approved a teacher for a sixth-class teaching assignment, extended a teacher's maternity leave to March 31, accepted a resignation, granted a teacher an unpaid leave and a teacher a medical leave, hired a full-time ESL teacher, and approved nine substitutes. The superintendent and a committee presented on the K-2/3-4 configuration model, transportation, food services, and a cost analysis for repurposing the Richard J. Hyde Elementary building as a Moon Academy. Board members thanked the staff for the presentations, with a board member noting a Canon Designs letter indicating the Hyde building could revert to a K-4 layout without construction costs. The president reminded residents of community meetings scheduled for February 16 and 17 and congratulated the secretary on becoming a grandmother. The meeting adjourned at 10:35 pm.