With two members dissenting, the Pleasant Valley School District board of directors approved purchasing more than $98,000 worth of weight room equipment.

The board voted 4-2 to purchase equipment for the weight room at the John C. Mills wing of the high school from The Fitness Headquarters in the amount of $98,604.46.Board member Susan Kresge said she would vote no."I am not going to support this. I would have liked more time to visit the proposal. I would rather see us purchase more white boards for the classrooms, and the high school's auditorium sound system should be looked at," she said.Director Dominick Sacci also voted no.The board of directors also approved, 6-0 (Russ Gould, Steve Borger and Charles Hoffman were absent), the Senior Citizens Property Tax Rebate Resolution of 2014.In other business management issues, the board unanimously approved:• paying $2,052 for licensed software and services to eSchoolPLUS (K-12)• providing an associate teacher for direct, one-on-one services at Stroudsburg Intermediate/ Elementary School-autistic support, effective Oct. 6 to the end of 2014-2015 school year, not to exceed $31,305.92 through the Colonial Intermediate Unit 20.• $1,292 to Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre for PVHS students to attend stage production ("Les Miserables") and buffet meal, May 7.• $2,565 for MTI Production contract for "Shrek The Musical" for the high school production• $500 to the Richard J. Caron Foundation for the SAP Team Maintenance Day, Jan. 30, at the middle school.The board unanimously approved:• Hiring Theresa Dinunzi, substitute monitor; Eric Gross, substitute English teacher and paraprofessional; Jennifer Ansbach, LTS special education/PVI, effective Nov. 5 through the end of second marking period; John Gesiskie, Kevin Horvath, Joe Anderton, event managers; Ronald Miller and Robert Miller, full-time (10 month) school police officers; Shannon Mackes, Meghan Feliciani, Jackie Ludka, Samantha George, Christina Novak, Danielle Unger, Alison Hudzinski cyber graduation project advisers, 2014-2017 supplemental contract $23 an hour for 15 hours.• The resignations of: Christine Fiorentino, part-time food service employee, effective Nov. 7; Carla Barrios, monitor, effective Nov. 7; Arlene Fette, substitute teacher, effective Nov. 10; ToniAnn Weirich, part-time paraprofessional associate, effective Nov. 19.• The retirements of Christopher Fisher, assistant to the superintendent, effective Jan. 5 and Monica Tramontina, full-time paraprofessional, effective Oct. 29.Director Dan Wunder said there was no aspect of any part of the school district where Christopher Fisher did not have some influence."He will be greatly missed," Wunder said.Director Kresge congratulated the schools for continuing their positivity campaign.