Board hears staffing needs for athletics; recommends two assistant coaches

Superintendent Martin Moore briefed the board on extra-coaching needs and recommended hiring two assistant coaches to support growing participation in middle- and high-school athletics.

Moore said Central Middle School needed an assistant coach and named George Estrada as the recommended hire; he also recommended Tegan Casey for assistant wrestling coach after the previous assistant left. He told the board that practices are run at a shared facility and that schedules must be split to accommodate teams. "So they've gotta be split in both, you know, central goes to central," Moore said when describing practice logistics.

Board members discussed the volume of student participation and the district's ability to support coaches; Moore suggested the new locker-room space added last summer helps accommodate larger groups. There was no separate roll-call vote recorded in the transcript for individual hirings in the excerpt; the item was presented as a personnel recommendation and will be handled through the district's hiring process.