Board Oks contracts for three supervisors


There will be no varsity girls high school softball team.

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MINERAL RIDGE — Weathersfield Board of Education approved renewing contracts of three district supervisors, and all three will take a wage freeze in the first year of their two-year pacts.

The supervisors’ contracts had to be renewed by Monday, schools Superintendent Michael Hanshaw said.

Hanshaw said the supervisors will get a 2 percent increase in the second year of their contracts. Administrators and the superintendent also took a wage freeze for the current 2007-08 school year.

The board renewed contracts approved for cafeteria supervisor Debbie Donkers starting Aug. 1 this year to July 31, 2010, with her current salary at $21,500; transportation supervisor Ron Knight, starting July 1 through June 30, 2010, with his current salary at $21,276; and for school district nurse Kim Brunton, starting July 1 to June 30, 2010, with her current salary at $30,176.

The board rescinded approval of a 2007-08 supplemental contract for Bill Croft as varsity softball coach, who was hired in November 2007 for the position, because of the cancellation of the season. The district said there weren’t enough players who came out to field a team.

Only six or seven girls came out for softball this year, Hanshaw said, an unusual occurrence for Weathersfield, which has had a girls softball team for decades.

He said a couple of girls have expressed an interest in playing for the boys baseball team, so they will do that this year. There is a good turnout for eighth-grade girls softball, which should ensure a varsity team next year, Hanshaw said.

Work commitments and scheduling conflicts also caused the varsity girls softball problem this year, district officials said.

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