Pleasant Valley has approved a retirement package for an administrator named in the grand jury presentment.

Last month Pleasant Valley School District Superintendent David Piperato said that middle school Principal Rocco Seiler was on leave through the end of the school year.

Thursday evening the district’s board of directors approved the agreement with Seiler, ending his tenure.

Late last year the Monroe County grand jury returned a presentment in which Seiler was named as a party to an incident that took place in May 2009 in a bar while in the company of former district employee Josh Krebs.

Krebs is currently under indictment for violations of the Pennsylvania wiretap laws and perjury. Seiler was granted immunity in the matter.

In the grand jury report, a staffer testified to being on a date and having seen Krebs and Seiler at a bar where the two were in the company of a young woman who was “clearly intoxicated.” Elaine Adams testified that the two were touching the woman inappropriately and that she appeared to be “scared.”

Adams’ date confronted the two men and got her away from them.

Seiler told the grand jury that on the day of the bar incident he was at an administrator’s house with Krebs. Seiler claimed that he became intoxicated at the administrator’s house.

He recalls being driven to the bar by Krebs. Seiler claimed his recollection of the events is incomplete. He does not recall any inappropriate conduct by him or Krebs but claims he does not dispute the accounts of his inappropriate behavior. Seiler remembers that somehow he ended up at Krebs’ house and got a ride home at some point.

The report notes that Brian Morgan, the guidance counselor and Seiler’s friend, was also questioned. Morgan told the grand jury that Seiler admitted to him that he acted inappropriately by being intoxicated and “making out” with a girl.

There is no evidence that Seiler’s leave or retirement are related to the incident listed in the presentment.

The terms of the retirement agreement were not available Thursday night.

Seiler was often front and center at events at the middle school, even taking part in some crazy stunts for mini-thon to reward his students for their extraordinary fundraising for childhood cancer.

Seiler was also a friend and former classmate of Chris Hixon, who was the athletic director of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Hixon was one of 17 faculty and students killed during a mass shooting at the high school on Feb. 14, 2018.

Seiler was instrumental in getting the new fitness center at Pleasant Valley High School named in Hixon’s honor. The dedication of the fitness center is scheduled to take place on April 29 during the high school academic fair.

Assistant Principal Josephine Fields is currently acting principal for the middle school building.