(The Pierce County Board of Education discussed and/or voted on the following during their monthly work session, Thursday, September 3 and its regular monthly meeting Tuesday, September 8. The regular meeting was delayed a day due to the Labor Day holiday.)
Closed session: The board adjourned into a five minute closed session to discuss personnel. After the session, the board voted to hire Rhonda Bennett as a teacher at Patterson Elementary, Gabrielle Durr as custodian at the middle school, Chelsea Waters as receptionist at the high school and Chris Golding as a maintenance and heating, ventilation and cooling (HVAC) technician for the system. The board also promoted Joseph Cribb to head custodian at Blackshear, Kim Kirkland as head custodian at Patterson and Monica Spikes to administrative secretary at the high school. Contract amendments were approved for Allyson Herron to provide a sign language interpreter supplement at Blackshear, Lisa Kicklighter for special education lead teacher supplement at Patterson and to increase Janet Strickland from 50 percent to 75 percent time at Patterson. Jacey Ryals was approved a community coach for swimming and Brian Turner as community coach for softball, both at the middle school. The board also voted to accept the resignation of Angie Smith as head custodian at Patterson.
Millage rate: The board scheduled approval of its millage rate at 12.953 mills at its regular meeting Sept. 8.
