An outgoing member of the Jim Thorpe Area School Board would like to see his colleagues hold more meetings at the district's elementary campus in Kidder Township.

William Allison, who lives in Penn Forest Township, raised the issue at Monday's school board meeting.Meetings had been held several times a year at the district's Penn-Kidder campus, but haven't been held there in more than a year.The Penn-Kidder campus is located well outside the borough of Jim Thorpe, 13 miles north of the Jim Thorpe Area High School in Kidder Township.However, a large number of Jim Thorpe students and taxpayers live in Kidder and Penn Forest townships. Allison said that with the amount those taxpayers provide for the district's coffers, they should be able to hold at least occasional meetings there."I think these folks need to be respected," Allison said. "They've paid the toll."Board President Dennis McGinley said that when meetings were held at Penn-Kidder, the board was sometimes unable to answer questions from the public because the materials they needed were still at the district offices in Jim Thorpe.Superintendent Brian Gasper said that he recalled weather being the cause for moving all of the board's meetings back to the district offices.Allison, a retired school administrator, did not seek re-election in 2015 and will leave the board at the end of the year.He also asked the board Monday night to continue work on forming a nonprofit alumni association so that the district would be eligible for tax-deductible donations from corporations.In other business, the board voted to allow disabled veterans in the district to be exempt from property taxes. The exemption only applies to veterans who are 100 percent disabled.