The Pleasant Valley School Board approved changing the title of both the reading supervisor and math supervisor to K-12 curriculum supervisor, but tabled the approval of 24 job descriptions.

The job descriptions were tabled because a majority of the school board members wanted more time to review the changes.

School director Susan Kresge said there were five job descriptions listed to changed on the agenda from the previous meeting and they were tabled.

She anticipated seeing them on the agenda for this meeting, but some are not listed and several others have been added.

“There were only five last meeting and now there are 18 and more on the addendum,” she said. “I am not finished going through them. I would like to table this.”

“I agree with Mrs. Kresge,” said school board director Dan Wunder. “We received hundreds of pages of documents for tonight.”

The directors said they received the documents 24 to 36 hours before the meeting and did not have enough time to review everything.

“I cannot vote on something I have not reviewed,” Wunder said.

He also said that he knows that Superintendent Lee Lesisko has been inundated with tasks that need to be completed for the state and pandemic issues, but documents need to get to the board sooner.

“I cannot even imagine what Dr. Lee is going through,” he said.

Director Len Peeters suggested that future requests of the board that involve reviewing several pages of documents be spread out over several meetings. Wunder agreed. The vote to table the job descriptions was 6 to 3. Those voting yes to table included: Susan Kresge, Dan Wunder, Todd Kresge, Norman Burger, Teresa Greggo and Delbert Zacharias. Those voting no were Donna Yozwiak, Laura Jecker and Len Peeters.

Before the vote to approve the change of the reading and math supervisors’ titles, Burger questioned why they were changing the title of two separate positions with different responsibilities to the same title and would they be doing the same job.

“Does it mean they’re equal? Are they equally qualified,” he asked.

Interim Human Resources Director Robert Mauro said that yes, they are equally qualified to handle both aspects of the job.

“They can do both, but they can do more than what they were doing,” he said.

Lesisko added that changing the titles gives the school district more flexibility to give them additional responsibilities.

Also under human resources, the board approved hiring two support staff members, one professional staff person and four summer maintenance technicians.

As support staff, Kathy Kleinle and Roxann Nicholas were hired as health room technicians at a rate of $29,760 each.

Kleinle will work at the elementary school and Nicholas will work at the high school.

They also hired Kacie Hay to be a speech and language therapist at Pleasant Valley Middle School at a rate of $49,267. Hay has a bachelor’s degree in communication studies and disorders/human development and family studies from Penn State and a mater’s degree in speech-language pathology from Bloomsburg University. She replaces Jeanne Paulin.

The summer maintenance positions were given to Kevin Johnson, Moises Larregiu, Raymond Lursen and Herbert Ortiz at a rate of $10.38 per hour.

And Caitlin Simpson was approved to be the Math Lab advisor at the high school. She will receive $23 per hour for her work with the students.

The school board also saw the resignation of two substitute teachers: Emily Vail and Lisa Malnar. They were not assigned to any specific building. And Lillian Muller, a paraprofessional associate at the intermediate school decided to retire.