PAGE 6 THE DALLAS"POST Sunday, April 26, 2009 PROGRAM Continued from Page 3 concerns of holding a summer program at the school, saying such a program would result in a second shift of janitors. “I'm just concerned about our building,” Traver said. “It has a lot of wear and tear. Hildebrandt is using it as if it is an extension of their arm.” Board members voted 8-1 not to extend Hildebrandt’s contract for the following school year. The board plans to vote on whether or not to put out a request for pro- posal for before- and after-school care for the fall. “I think the concern was there are providers out there and we don’t want to compete with them,” said Board President Ka- ren Kyle. “The other concern is the wear and tear on our build- ings.” Summer school Jack Wega announced that the district's summer school pro- gram will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Monday through Thursday from June 15 to July 19. Reading enrichment is available for stu- dents who finished kindergarten through sixth-grade and math en- richment is open to students who finished kindergarten through fifth-grade. Wega says this will be the 14th year for the district's summer school program. Transportation is not provided. Project Labor Agreement Jack Figured, who has been in- volved in the local construction trade for 30 years, addressed the board on using Project Labor Agreement in building the new high school. Project Labor Agree- ment is an agreement that re- quires contractors who are awarded a bid to use local labor for sub-contracting. “The people from Luzerne, Wyoming counties, they're the people who are going to be pay- ing the taxes on this,” Figured said. “And we want to make sure they’re the ones who will benefit from this.” Figured said the Project Labor Agreement allows continuous flow of construction without la- bor disputes, a consistent source of trained employees and it com- bines labor contracts. In addition, Figured says many local, young apprentices also benefit from the agreement by re- ceiving free training. Hires Cathy Gawlas was appointed the assistant coach of the middle school track team for the 2008-09 season. She will be paid $639. Thomas Pealer was appointed Dallas Middle School House- keeper No. 2 at a salary of $11.26 an hour effective Feb. 16, 2009 in accordance with the Collective Bargaining Agreement between the Dallas School District and Dallas School Educational Sup- port Personnel Association. Lois C. Manley was appointed a special needs aide at a salary of $8.10 an hour. Julie Curry and Sallyann Cuz- ma were approved as lifeguards at salaries of $10 an hour. Clarence Hogan was approved as a driver for the district for the 2008-09 school year, pending all clearances and appropriate li censing. Hogan will be paid $10.50 an hour as a van driver and $13.50 an hour as a mini-bus driv- er. Three people were hired as marching band advisers for the 2008-09 school year at a salary of $1,864 in accordance with the agreement between the Dallas School District and the Dallas School District Education Asso- ciation. Rachel Hamlen was hired as band front coordinator, Ge- orge Levandowski was hired as marching coordinator and John Bender was hired as rhythmic co- ordinator. Retiring employees Letters of intent to retire at the end of the school year by four pro- fessional employees were accept- ed by the board. The employees are M. Jay Pope, 37 years of ser- vice; Elizabeth Cannon, 36 years of service; Sharon A. Nardone, 34.5 years of service; and Ma- ryann T. Yurko, 15 years of ser- vice. A letter of intent to retire on Jan. 3, 2010 by Nancy Biscontini, who has 14 years of service with the district, was accepted by the board. Leave of absences An extended leave of absence was approved for Susan Berecin, a high school math teacher, from September 18, 2008 to May 29, 2009. The leave was previously approved until April 30, 2009. The board also approved a leave of absence for Shannon For- rer, a high school special educa- tion teacher, for September 11, 2009 to May 14, 2010. Former employee mourned Superintendent Frank Galicki asked for a moment of silence to honor Ruth N. Young, a former secretary at the old Westmore- land School. Young, 85, of Sha- vertown, died Sunday, April 19, 2009 at home. Pay increase It was adopted to increase the support staff substitute pay from $8 an hour to $8.50 an hour. Meals Metz & Associates, LTD will be paid for total meals served to students during the first two months of the year. Metz will be paid $68,968.55 for meals served in January and $74,983.90 for meals served in February. Lock=in The Dallas Graduation Lock-In 2009 Committee will receive $5,000 in district money for the event. SAFETY Continued from Page 3 $38,510 with the initial assign- ment as Speech and Language Pathologist, effective May 4. ® Accepted the resignation of Jacqueline M. McHale as Board Secretary, effective Monday. McHale, who is the district’s di- rector of Human Resources, served as the board secretary for 19 years. ¢ Appointed Mary Jo Casaldi as board secretary, effective Monday at a stipend of $2,600 per year. Casaldi is also an ad- ministrative assistant to the su- perintendent. ¢ Approved payment to Quad Three Group in the amount of $6,242 for professional services through February 28, 2009 for the Ross Elementary project. ¢ Executed a Sports Medicine Service Agreement between the district and Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center, effective July 1, at a rate of $33,000 for a one-year term. The meeting was recessed and will continue on May 4 in the li- brary of the junior-senior high school. Immediately following the board meeting, a student pre- sentation called “Flip the Switch” was held in the junior- senior high school auditorium. High school students showcased projects they created using the school’s state-of-the-art comput- er and camera equipment which was purchased through a state Classrooms for the Future Grant. Lake-Lehman was among eight school districts in the county to receive funding and was awarded $211,666 for the 2007-2008 school-year. Kelly Cave-Mattie, an English teacher at the high school and also the CFF coach, said the school received 250 laptop com- puters, three web cams, three still cameras, four video cam- eras, four network printers, 10 wireless access points and eight mobile carts used for transport- ing the laptops from room to room. 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Twenty-five classrooms have been outfitted with whiteboards and projectors and an additional five classrooms will be outfitted by the end of the year. : Wilkes-Barre Campus SE SUBMITTED PHOTO Students from Dallas High School recently placed third in a i JETS/TEAMS event held at Penn State Wilkes-Barre. From left, first row, are Jake Reinert and Kyle Piazza. Second row, John Barnes, Penn State Wilkes-Barre; John Fredericks, coach; AJ Thomas, Monica Esopi, Nicole Clemson, Emily Baut, Megan Jor- dan, Norman Johnstone, Society of Professional Engineers, Luzerne County Chapter; and Drew Clouse. DHS students participate in JETS program at PSU Nearly 90 students from sev- en different high schools recent- ly spent the day at Penn State Wilkes-Barre competing for re- gional, state and national recog- nition. Students from grades 9-12 participated in the Tests of En- gineering Aptitude, Mathemat- ics and Science or TEAMS com- petition. 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