Wolfe returning as board president

AMITY >> Daniel Boone School Board President Michael D. Wolfe was unanimously reelected to a second, one-year term at the board’s Dec. 5 reorganization meeting.

Board member Jeffrey Scott, who had been temporarily appointed board president for the reorganization proceedings, was appointed as the board’s new vice president by a 5-3 vote.

Scott replaces Connor Kurtz, who served in the position for three years, from 2014 through Dec. 5, 2016.

Wolfe represents the Region 3 area of Monocacy and the Borough of Birdsboro. His term ends in 2019. Scott represents Amity Township’s Region 1, and also serves through 2019.

Board member Tamara Twardowski was absent from

the meeting.

The board will announce at its Dec. 19 voting meeting the appointments to its four standing committees and five ad hoc committees.

The four standing committees are Finance, Facilities, Curriculum and Instruction, and Policy Review.

New ad hoc committees of Personnel, Extra Cur- ricular, and Safety and Security, have been added to the current Negotiations and Transportation ad hoc committees.

“The purpose of the Safety and Security Committee is to determine how to make schools more secure,” said board member Richard Martino.

One way, he said, is with the proposal of a school security officer from the Amity Police Department.

The officer’s $100,000 salary and benefits would be divided between the three municipalities.

Kurtz said the focus of the Personnel Committee will be to “better organize the district -- human resource functions and duties, versus job descriptions, and how they are aligned.”

The recently approved four-year teacher contract indicates no horizontal or vertical movement on the salary schedule for the first three years of the contract.

The 246 teachers would each receive a $500 bonus in year three.

Step and column movement would occur in the contract’s fourth year -the 2018-19 school year -without “additional money added to the schedule.”

“Thank you to the board members for taking time out of their busy lives [to serve],” said district Superintendent James P. Harris.

“I know it looks glamorous, but it’s not all glamour. They do a lot of work behind the scenes -- and the committees they serve on.”