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Board approves personnel moves, affiliation agreements and advances multiple policies
Summary
The Braxton County Board of Education approved consent items and superintendent personnel recommendations, authorized health-occupation affiliation agreements including one with WVU entities, granted travel permission for a staff member, and advanced several policies to later readings by voice vote.
At its Sept. 16 meeting the Braxton County Board of Education handled multiple formal actions by voice vote.
The board approved the consent agenda, including the minutes of Sept. 2 and payment appeals, with a single typographic correction noted in the minutes.
Following an executive-session motion to discuss personnel matters under the personnel statute, the board returned to open session and a staff member read a slate of personnel recommendations. The list included resignations (for example, Kayla Montgomery as substitute teacher and Eric Whitney as treasurer, effective 09/16/2025), employment and extracurricular appointments, volunteer approvals, and step-3 pay increases "pursuant to" state code for certain special-education and math teachers. A board member moved to approve the superintendent's personnel recommendations; the motion carried by voice vote.
The board approved annual affiliation agreements to place students from the district's health-occupations program at local clinical sites, including Braxton Healthcare Center, Community Care West Virginia, a physical-therapy provider, and Mon Health Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital. The board also approved an affiliation agreement with West Virginia University (WVU) School of Medicine and related WVU clinical entities to provide clinical education and training to students in the high-school health occupations program.
The board granted permission for Grace Swine to attend the Innovative School Summit in San Antonio, Texas, Dec. 3–6, 2025, at no cost to the district; presenters noted she will lead a breakout workshop on trauma-informed practice.
Finally, the board moved five policies (instructional resources; embedded credit; revised graduation requirements; participation in extracurricular activities; parent and family engagement) from first reading to second reading, and separately moved six policies to third and final reading (district organization, board-policy process renaming, staffing requirements, virtual school policy, substitute professionals, rating policy). All motions were approved by voice vote; the meeting record does not show roll-call tallies.
The meeting closed with board remarks praising student progress and reminders about volunteer training; the chair adjourned the meeting at about 7:34 p.m.
