19 seek assistant principal job / By Martha Knight

Superintendent Gary Buchsen told the Port Allegany School Board Monday night that 19 persons have applied for the assistant principal position vacated last month by Kerri Dach.

It is expected that there will be some winnowing of the candidates and additional steps toward hiring, at an executive session later this month.

In the brief business meeting the board appointed Loren Ferguson National Honor Society advisor at a supplemental salary of $679.

Junior-senior high school principal Marc Budd presented information about the uses of funds raised for support of the choral music program. He said choral director and music department head Kenneth Myers had given him a comprehensive report of how the program is assisted by the money, which augments funds allocated to the choral program in the budget.

Among items paid for by the fund are show choir costumes and other materials used in performances, help with transportation and fees related to annual trips by the singers, tickets to Broadway shows during such trips, transportation to games where the singers perform the national anthem, .miscellaneous equipment, printing of brochures and programs, and extra music.

Budd noted that the singers are invited to perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City, this year.

Added to the substitute list were Olivia Zaiss, with special education certification, and Kelly Lathrop, with a social studies credential

Reinstated were Daniel Reilly, with mathematics certification and Christian Sevinsky, with elementary and junior high math credentials.

Removed from the substitute list were Jennifer Barnes, Vincent Berrettini, Alyssa Bowser, Thomas Brown, Kari Drabert, Daniel Fuller, Ann Long, Amy Raught, David Roae, Wendy Roys, Cynthia Smith and Roxanne Taylor.

The board approved changes in property tax assessments as recommended by the McKean County Assessment Office, resulting in a net decrease of $859.85 in 2014 real estate taxes.

The board went into executive session at the end of the public meeting, and did not reconvene in public session afterward.

The next meeting of the board will be a 7 p.m. Monday, September 22, in the junior-senior high school library.