The fate of the principal's position at S.S. Palmer Elementary School and Parkside Education Center will be determined tonight at the Palmerton Area School District school board meeting. The public meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the third-floor boardroom at Parkside.

Mary Brumbach was suspended on Oct. 23 following allegations that she falsified documents that claimed three state-required fire alarm drills were conducted, but alarm company records differ. At Palmerton, principals sign and submit a paper report stating the time and date of the fire drill, the number of participants and how long it took for them to evacuate the school.On Jan. 6, Brumbach and her attorney sat down with Superintendent Scot Engler; John Audi, attorney for the school district; and Joseph Faenza, the district's director of buildings and grounds, for a hearing to determine if there were grounds to terminate her position.Brumbach said throughout the hearing that she did not knowingly falsify documents or intend to do any harm to the school district.She is accused of reporting that fire alarm drills were held in June, July and August, but they were not actually conducted. State law requires every school in the commonwealth hold monthly fire drills.Brumbach's report stated that a fire drill took place on June 10, but the last day of school was June 9. The alarm company does not show that the alarm was activated at all in June.The July alarm was not activated, but Brumbach stated on the report that the drill was conducted on July 14. She said Faenza told her she could just do the paperwork. At the hearing, he vehemently denied saying that to her.For August, Brumbach actually activated the alarm on Sept. 1, but reported that she had conducted the drill on Aug. 31."I intended that to be the August fire drill, and we had an additional fire drill in September," Brumbach said at the hearing. "I didn't know it was wrong."She has been the principal of the two schools since 2010.