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Board approves resignations, staffing moves and posts career‑literacy position
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Summary
The Pendleton County Board accepted several resignations, approved RIFs/transfers and rescinded one RIF; it authorized posting for a career literacy teacher/interventionist and other vacancies and approved multiple hires and volunteer roles.
The Pendleton County Board of Education approved a slate of personnel actions, including resignations, reorganizations, hires and permission to post new positions.
The superintendent’s office recommended accepting resignations from Adam Barker (custodian, Pendleton County Middle High School), Hillary Fox (volleyball coach) and Taylor Southerly (assistant softball coach); the board moved and approved the resignations by voice vote.
Administration also presented RIFs and transfers for extracurricular sign‑language roles (Shannon Hartman and Marlena Beechler) and a transfer for Amy Gardner (preschool ECAT 2 at Franklin Elementary); those actions were approved. The board voted to rescind the RIF for Aaliyah Wright and make her an itinerant, part‑time Communities in Schools site resources facilitator shared between Brandywine and North Fork elementary schools.
The board granted permission to close three positions (two English language arts positions and one math teacher position at Pendleton County Middle High) because of low enrollment and reorganization. It then approved posting three vacancies: an English language arts/social studies teacher (grades 7–12), a career literacy teacher/interventionist (grades 7–12) at Pendleton County Middle High, and an extracurricular before‑and‑after‑school detention teacher at Franklin Elementary. The career literacy position is linked to the district’s plan to offer a Discover Your Future (DYF) curriculum to seventh and eighth graders as part of a regular class schedule.
The board also approved employment recommendations: Hillary Fox as head softball coach, Heidi Davis as a kindergarten teacher at Brandywine Elementary, and Christine Kyle as a substitute school nurse. In addition, the board approved a list of extracurricular contracts, professional contracted services (including bus drivers and therapy providers) and volunteers/chaperones for school activities.
An earlier motion moved the board into executive session for personnel under "West Virginia code 6984 a"; the board reconvened and reported coming out of executive session with no action taken.
All personnel and contract items were approved by voice votes; the record in the transcript shows motion, second and voice approval for each listed item but does not include individual roll‑call vote tallies.
