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Southern Tioga passes budget resolution

BLOSSBURG —  Southern Tioga School Board unanimously adopted a 2017-18 accelerated budget resolution, so it will not be putting out a preliminary budget on Tuesday.

The board also will not be raising taxes above the 3.2 percent state Act 1 index, according to district Business Manager Kathy Ciaciulli.

There will be a budget update at its Feb. 13 meeting.

Voting yes were Stephen Guillaume, Sandra Olson, Michelle McDermott, Ivan Erway, James Kreger, John Ritter, Sean Bartlett, John Martin and Julie Miller.

The board also agreed to move the district administrative office from the Boyanowski Administration Building to Blossburg Elementary School.

There is no date or time frame for the move, Ciaciulli said.

“We are growing out of the current building we are in,” she said. “We’ve put money into (the elementary school), and feel it would be beneficial to use the space currently there.”

There is a Professional Learning Center in the school that the district uses as a central hub, so moving the administrative offices into the school would make the district more centralized, she said.

It also was agreed that Superintendent Sam Rotella can begin looking for buyers for the current administration building.

In other business, the board voted to hire the following individuals: Rachelle Hunt, Blossburg Elementary head cook, $11.16 per hour; Ryan Schultz, Blossburg Elementary custodian, $9.48 per hour; Alicia Cary, business office specialist, $22,949 salary; Glenna Powell, long-term learning-support substitute at North Penn-Mansfield High School, daily rate of $232; Kimberly McClain, part-time cafeteria worker at Warren L. Miller Elementary School, $8.21 per hour; and Joshua Cummings, custodian at Miller Elementary, $9.48 per hour.

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