The Pleasant Valley School Board approved a memorandum of understanding with the support staff union Thursday evening regarding the number of pay periods in the 2025-26 school year.

The memorandum states that the number of pay periods in a school year can fluctuate between 26 and 27 depending on how the calendar falls.

The district and the union discussed which would be the case for the 2025-26 school year and agreed for it to be 27 weeks, but the decision is not a precedent for future school years.

No comments were made during the meeting about the item.

In other business related to personnel, the school board approved the following items:

• Affiliation agreements: Chamberlain University and Penn State University.

• Hiring of long term, substitute professional staff: Lance Soodeen, technology education teacher, PVMS, Step 1, $52,642; replacement.

• Hiring of professional staff: Emma Held, third grade teacher, PVIS, Step 1, $52,642, effective Jan. 2, replaced Samantha Curry due to a change of assignment; Sydnie Christman, kindergarten teacher, PVES, Step 1: $52,642, effective Jan. 2, new position; Michelle Lawrence, midlevel mathematics, PVMS, Step 6, $62,042, new position; Dalton Marsh, biology teacher, PVHS, Step 3, $53,542, effective by March 12, replaced Moriah Flyte.

• Resignation: James Long, biology and chemistry teacher, PVHS, effective Feb. 4.

• Supplemental athletic noncoaching contracts: Jody Berube, Vanessa Fego, Lisa Maderic and Ashley Thompson, all fall varsity, $45; Jennifer O’Keefe, spring varsity and junior varsity, $45 and $35, and substitute for all seasons for 2024.

• Supplemental nonathletic contracts: After-school tutor, Alexandria Gibb, PVMS, $35 per hour; Pep Band adviser, Willow Krechel, PVHS, $1,500.

• Volunteers: Robert Butler, Sharon Schwar, Harold Johns Jr., Kyleigh Youpa, Julie Schwarz, Kristina Kessler, Stephanie Carty, Kim Donlon, Melanie Walters, Lina Safi, Hailey Shoemaker, Mark Giunta and Shawn Flaherty.