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Board reviews reductions-in-force, transfers and personnel deadlines
Summary
The superintendent told the Upshur County Board the district met statutory deadlines for personnel actions, detailed addendum corrections (including Dean Brown reclassified as a transfer and Kendra Riley removed from a service list), and said hearing examiners upheld the county’s recommendations; certified-mail notices will be sent.
The Upshur County Board of Education received an update on personnel actions tied to statutorily required deadlines and addendum corrections.
The superintendent told members the personnel packet before the board includes reductions in force, terminations, transfers, modified contracts and extracurricular positions. Staff said required notifications were made in writing and by certified mail where prescribed, and that deadlines (notifications before April 1 for transfers and hearing/termination processes before May 1) were met. The superintendent said, “Tonight, we are meeting those statutorily required deadlines.”
The superintendent also said two addendum items would be voted on separately because they had been corrected after the packet was prepared: Dean Brown had been listed as a reduction-in-force termination but should be listed as a transfer, and Kendra Riley should be removed from the FY26 service personnel continuing/probationary list at Buchanan/ Upshur Middle School. A board member asked when the addenda were approved by the state department and expressed concern about timing; the superintendent reported state approval occurred close to 9:00 a.m. the morning the addendum went out.
On hearings the superintendent reported that hearings held the prior Thursday resulted in the hearing examiner upholding the county’s recommendations — including changes to contracted days and a transfer — and that affected employees would receive official certified-mail notification from the hearing examiner within days.
Board members asked operational questions tied to personnel changes: how custodial coverage will be handled with some positions reduced to fewer days and how enrollment changes might affect rehire preference. The superintendent said the district will hire temporary wax crews to prepare buildings for summer and that non-wax tile replacement projects were already in progress at several schools; she also said employees would still need to apply for posted positions but would receive hiring preference where statute allows.
Next steps: The addendum items were set to be voted separately; the transcript does not record those separate votes during this session. The board confirmed plans to continue following statutory posting and notification requirements.
