NEWS
MCS Names Bball Coach, Makes Personnel Moves
MIDDLEBURGH - Middleburgh school board members named a basketball coach for the upcoming winter season and also approved a slate of personnel moves earlier month.
At their October 9 meeting, school board members made the following personnel moves:
* Appointed Aaron Lawyer as boys JV basketball coach for the 2024-25 school year.
* Named the following support staff substitutes: Alyssa Smith, Stephanie Hildreth, Carole Adams, and Leanne Baker.
* Accepted the resignation of Kaila Kurz as music teacher, Music of the Knight, and choral director, effective October 23.
* Appointed Kristina Traver to a four-year probationary appointment as a teaching assistant, retroactive to September 20 and ending September 19, 2028.
* Approved a revised appointment of Kaitlyn MacMillan to a four-year probationary appointment as a teach assistant retroactive to September 26 and ending September 25, 2028, The appointment supersedes the one made earlier this year.
* Named Angela Sampson as a school bus aide.
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In other action, board members:
* Approved three corrective action plans following audits of the district finances.
* Approved overnight trips to the FFA National Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana from October 21 to 26 and a trip to the Inauguration in Washington, D.C. from January 20 to 22, 2025.
* Approved the use of a school bus for the West Fulton Rod and Gun Club to Max V. Shaul Park on Saturday, October 12 for the Timothy Murphy 10K Run/Walk.
* Had a first reading on a policy on public access of records.
* Declared school bus #163 to be obsolete and of no further use or value to the district and donated it to the Middleburgh Fire Department for training.
* Accepted a donation of a 1957 Chevrolet body on a Yamaha golf cart, valued at $6,500 from CNY Custom Carts for the technology club and $500 from National Bank of Coxsackie for the the MCS Backpack program.
* Received new name plates from the technology class and had a reception in honor of school board appreciation month.