At its January 24 meeting the school board approved travel expenditures for a district secretary to attend training related for “school dude” software programming in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, from March 17 to 21 at a cost of $1,600, and for a purchasing specialist to attend the three meetings of the Governmental Purchasing Association of New Jersey.
In personnel decisions, the board took the following action:
— Gerald Pinner was reappointed as a second grade teacher at Wicoff Elementary School as he is set to returns from a leave of absence on February 17. His prorated salary will be $53,010.
— Antonella Vescuso, a Spanish teacher at High School South, will be temporarily appointed as a guidance counselor to fill in for Brooke Parrott, who will be on leave from February 13 until the end of the school year.
– The district hired Oksana Kessous as a certified substitute teacher for $90 per day.
– On January 20 Special Educational Instructional Assistant Jeffrey Fisher resigned from the district. He was replaced by Bhagyashhri Waghulde and Brianne Teichmann, who are will each work 3.5 hours a day at a rate of $17.22 per hour.
– Starting February 8, Diane Basile will serve as a substitute instructional assistant and substitute cafeteria aide at Maurice Hawk.
– Samantha Tognela of High School North will receive a prorated stipend of $6,429 for her role in special services as lead child study team member.
– A stipend of $3,792.32 will be awarded to Christopher Petrone, boys’ JV lacrosse coach at High School South. Meanwhile, board member John Farrell will continue as boys’ lacrosse coach as an unpaid volunteer.
– Eleven teachers will receive pay of $47.09 per hour for homebound instruction extra duty they performed in January. The list includes the following High School North educators: Laura Cobb, language arts, not to exceed six hours; Christopher Bond, social studies, six hours; Julie Norato, science, six hours; William Scarpitta, math, six hours and Tammy Petrocelli, driver’s ed, 15 hours.
From South: Bonnie Brienza, AP calculus, four hours; Szlilivia Fejes, French, four hours, and Maureen Leleszi, consumer economics, four hours.
Other teachers covering homebound instruction were Grover Middle School’s Kurt Wayton; Lauren Petersack of Maurice Hawk, and Melissa Collins.
