Board
clears up mix-up over job
Tuesday, January 10, 206 • By
SARAH CASSI • The Express-Times
PHILLIPSBURG | School board members and
Superintendent Gordon Pethick aired an apparent
miscommunication over filling a job vacancy during a meeting
Monday night
Patrick Cawley retired as director of
elementary education last month and some of the board
members said they were under the impression the position
might be eliminated by realigning responsibilities within
the administration.
However Pethick said the position was
temporarily filled and he was actively looking for a
permanent replacement.
"I don't know if it is a board consensus
to move forward to fill that position," said board member
Thomas F. McGuire.
Pethick said he thought the board gave
him permission to fill the position.
"The format we have right now, I feel, is
a format that is appropriate to move forward," Pethick said.
"If there's anything different from that, let me
know."
Pethick said the full-time position was
posted this week and he is moving forward to fill
it.
Board member Robert C. Brennan said
filling the position would not prevent a review or
reassignment of administration offices and
positions.
Board member Paul Rummerfield said he had
no set outline or goals for the office reviews, and said the
process would be up to Pethick.
Pethick said administration positions and
offices were reviewed over a month ago, but that if the
board wanted him to review the offices he would.
In other board news, Greenwich school
board member Christopher Wittmann was sworn in to replace
former board member William Kanyuck. Kanyuck was elected to
the Greenwich committee in November, and resigned from the
school board to take that seat.
Reporter Sarah Cassi can be reached at 610-258-7171 or by
e-mail at scassi@express-times.com.
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