WEST BRANCH School board hires basketball coaches
The board will seek bids to raze two old district buildings.
By JoANN JONES
VINDICATOR CORRESPONDENT
BELOIT -- The West Branch Board of Education hired several coaches and assistants for boys and girls basketball.
Brian Armstrong, a teacher in the Canal Fulton Northwest School District, will serve as assistant varsity girls basketball coach. Chuck Campbell is head coach.
Mike Scott, a teacher in the Alliance district, will coach the junior varsity girls basketball squad.
Mike Leone, a teacher in the Marlington district, will assist boys coach Mike Falasca, and West Branch teacher John Hancock will coach the junior varsity boys basketball squad.
The four assistant coaches will make $3,516 for the year.
Freshman basketball coaches hired were district residents Jeff Martig and Scott Loudon for the boys and Jason Candle for the girls. All freshman basketball coaches are paid $2,746. Martig and Loudon will share their salary.
The board named teachers Frank Edie and Matt Thomas as eighth- and seventh-grade boys basketball coaches, respectively.
Beloit resident Josh Scott will coach eighth-grade girls basketball, and Beloit resident Robert Stull will coach seventh-grade girls hoops.
All junior high coaches were hired at a salary of $2,310.
Jason Brown, a district resident, and Mark Slack of Alliance were hired as assistant wrestling coaches to head coach Mike Helm. Both coaches will make $3,516. Teachers Ryan Bailey and Scott Bates will share middle school wrestling duties, splitting a contract for $2,310.
The board also approved Carnation Clinic Inc. of Alliance to provide athletic training coverage at a cost of $15,000 plus half the cost of medical supplies.
Authorization given
Also Tuesday evening, board members authorized treasurer Karen Elsner to advertise for bids for the demolition and abatement of the Knox Elementary and Damascus Elementary buildings. After their demolition, new buildings will be built on the same sites.
The board voted to renew its building and property insurance with Westfield Insurance through the Williams and Case Insurance Agency of Sebring. Elsner said the amount of the premiums have not been set, however, because they cannot be determined until new additions to the district's buildings are completed.
The board accepted the resignations of Marsha Whinery, secretary to Superintendent Louis Ramunno, effective Jan. 1, and Martha Becker, Knox Elementary head cook, effective Dec. 1.
Board members accepted 11 donations, including six of $368.55 each from district administrators, that will pay for parquet flooring in the new high school gym.
They also awarded the district's bakery business to Nickels Bakery and added several people to the certified and classified substitute lists.