Thursday night Pleasant Valley School Board voted to withhold charter school tuition payments pending the receipt of its subsidy from the state.

District Business Manager Susan Famularo made the motion during the school board meeting. The motion recommended that the board withhold the charter school tuition for the 2015-16 until the school district receives its subsidy.The motion passed.In an interview before the board meeting, district Superintendent Carole Geary had said that the district was in a fairly strong financial position and would not be in danger of running out of funds until possibly March.Geary also stressed that the district tries to act fiscally responsible in general."Let's face it," she said. "I'm cheap. We don't waste money unnecessarily on supplies. We also work closely with the union to replace retiring employees with temporary replacements during the school year. At the end of the year we assess the need for the position. Over the years we have been able to eliminate a number of positions without it affecting our success."The district did hire a few new employees. Amy Crilley was hired as a substitute paraprofessional associate. Wendy Daricek was hired as a full-time custodian at $15.02 per hour. Anna Manwiller was hired as a substitute monitor and Kelly Williams was hired for LTS, during the leave of Elise Walters. Williams' rate is $41,400 per year, prorated to a start date of Oct. 9.During the Pleasant Valley residents' portion of the meeting, Betty VanHorn addressed the board. VanHorn had addressed the board at the previous meeting regarding her concerns of substitute employees not being given interviews for full-time jobs that they apply for. She felt that there were people being recommended as new hires who had no experience, while she and others with experience were not being considered for the positions.At Thursday's meeting VanHorn addressed the board again, saying that since her previous comments to the board, she had been called by her employer and been expressly told that she was not to address the board. She added that she had been told that for having addressed the board already, she would not be considered for full-time employment in the future, and if she were to address the board again, she would not be called in as a substitute any longer."You should not have been told that," said board President Russell Gould.Gould turned to solicitor Daniel Corveleyn to address the matter.Corveleyn said that he would look into the matter, but he also directed VanHorn to go through the proper channels for filing grievances."You need to look at the school district as a company," Corveleyn said. "Ms. Geary is the CEO of this company, and by going through the channels it will get to her."