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Wallkill Valley board approves hires, salary listings and abolishes Family Consumer Science position
Summary
At its May 26 meeting the Wallkill Valley board approved personnel items including summer hours, new hires and salary placements for 2026–27 and voted to abolish the Family Consumer Science position as a reduction in force effective June 30, 2026.
The Wallkill Valley Regional High School Board of Education approved a broad personnel package May 26 that included summer hours, new hires, salary placements for 2026–27 and a reduction in force that abolishes the Family Consumer Science position effective June 30, 2026.
Personnel Items 1–20 were approved in a roll call vote. Among the actions: approval of up to 100 additional summer hours for Christopher Stefanski at $51 per hour; approval of summer-hour allocations and higher hourly summer pay for several staff; placement and salary approvals for teaching staff and support personnel for the 2026–27 school year; establishment of bus-driver hourly rates for extracurricular routes and $6,000 stipends for Karl Klein and Ryan Kreher to drive buses for both the 2025–26 and 2026–27 school years.
The board approved the hiring of Monique Brown as a Spanish teacher (BA+15 Step 5, $78,924) and Mindy Bennington as an LDTC (MA+30 Step 12, $106,899). The board accepted, with regret, the resignation for retirement of David Wolfelsperger effective June 30, 2026.
Under the Addendum the board resolved to abolish the Family Consumer Science position effective June 30, 2026 “for reasons of economy and efficiency” and directed that the reduction in force be carried out in accordance with Board Policy and Regulation Nos. 3146 and applicable New Jersey statutes and regulations; affected employees are to be notified of impacts on tenure and seniority rights. The motion carried in the roll call (listed in the minutes as Bonard/Silipena).
Superintendent David Carr and Business Administrator Joseph P. Hurley Jr. provided administrative recommendations. The meeting also recorded the board’s approval of multiple summer custodial hires pending background checks and listed numerous continuing-employment salary placements for tenured and non-tenured staff.
Next steps: Personnel paperwork and notifications required by statute and board policy will be completed, and summer schedules and stipends will be processed through payroll.
