CHAMPION Board of education

The board of education welcomed new Champion High School Principal Fred Kunar and took these actions Monday night:
Agreed to place a 10.20-mill emergency operating levy on the Nov. 4 general election ballot. Treasurer Brian Gillespie said the district has not approved a levy since 1998. The five-year renewal would raise $1,655,168 each year.Accepted the resignation of Kelli Young as eighth-grade volleyball coach.Approved Rebecca Bucco, school nurse, and Anita Kramer, retired school nurse, as CPR instructors for coaches, staff and bus drivers. The nurses will be paid from staff development funds.Approved Maria Magiassos and Garry Peacock as senior class advisers.Approved Don Boring as boys basketball scorekeeper, Terry Coxson as assistant varsity football coach, Kelli Young as an eighth grade volleyball coach, and Gretchen Angelo as junior varsity softball coach and boys basketball timer.Agreed that substitute employees hourly and daily pay rates and Champion High School student fees for art, family and consumer science, industrial arts, computer science, and science will remain the same as last year.Agreed to recall one part-time and one full-time Title I reading instructors, Christine Berry and Sarah Corbett, from the 2002-03 school year. The positions are available because the district has received an increase of $78,000 in the federal reading program funding.
Granted permission to St. John's Lutheran Church to install a light on one of the district's poles to illuminate the church parking lot.