Tuesday, December 22, 2015
YOUNGSTOWN
Jerron Jenkins is the new head football coach of the East High School Panthers.
The city school board approved Jenkins’ hiring at a meeting tonight. The previous coach resigned. Jenkins served as an assistant. His salary will be based on a percentage of a teacher’s salary.
Jenkins’ hiring had been on the agenda at the Dec. 8 school board meeting but was tabled. It wasn’t on tonight’s meeting agenda, but Richard Atkinson, board member, made a motion to hire Jenkins after the board convened from an executive session. Tonight’s vote followed an impassioned plea by another assistant coach who told board members that a coach had to be appointed soon because he feared players leaving and enrolling in other schools.