School board makes numerous appointments, hirings this month

by Dan McClelland

The Tupper Lake Central School District Board of Education adopted several personnel changes at its October meeting.

The board accepted the resignation of Kristen Wilcox from her position as teacher aide and bus monitor, as of September 30

Samuel Brown was appointed by the board as theater club assistant for the current school year at an annual stipend of $2,119 under the current Tupper Lake United Teachers contract.

Samantha Luce was hired as a teacher aide for a 52-week probationary period, effective September 25, at an hourly rate of pay of $17.34- as set by the current staff CSEA contract.

Grace Mitchell was appointed by the board as a substitute, as of September 24, at the non-certified teacher sub rate of $110 per day.

Tammy Richardson was given by the board a provisional appointment, amended from an earlier one, as an administrative aide for a 52-week probationary period for 170 hours of work in the district’s business office from this past September to the end of the school year in June, on a pro-rated basis of pay for those 170 hours.

Kara Willette was approved by the board to be a school volunteer, as of October 6.

The board made the following appointments of school professionals to the Franklin County Committee on Preschool Special Education as evaluators. All the evaluations when needed are to be performed outside the normal school day. Those appointed were: Psychologist Dan Brown ($405 per evaluation at state rate with an additional $173 if a functional behavior assessment is required; Occupational Therapist Rhonwen Jones ($173 per evaluation; Speech and Language Pathologists Sylvia Mattice and Cindy Williams ($173 per evaluation); AnnMarie Munn, providing special education itinerant services ($82 for one-hour sessions). The rates include mileage and travel time to the location of the session required, it was noted in the motion. For all those providers, services and evaluations completed during the school day are not reimbursable to the staff member, as those fall under the current TLUT contract.