Weatherly Area School Board held their March voting meeting in person, spread out in the middle school cafeteria before a small audience.

Board members were unanimous in approving Mark Kane as assistant softball coach, with an $1,800 stipend, and Shane Hoffman as a volunteer assistant softball coach. Board member Matt vonFrisch was reappointed as the board’s representative to the Carbon-Lehigh Intermediate Unit.

The Meadows Psychiatric Center was approved to provide educational services for the coming two years.

Policy changes approved for first reading included changes to parent registration language, regulations for school bus drivers and school vehicle drivers, as well as updates to policies on discrimination, sexual harassment, dating violence and assault.

April 1 was approved as a makeup for the snow day taken off on Feb. 16.

Business manager Natasha Milazzo presented her report. Bills of $1,137,496 were approved. The 2021 installment plan for district property taxes to be paid was approved - with a third of the amount due by Aug. 14, next by Oct. 16 and the third by Dec. 15. Also approved was the calendar for regular taxpayers - the 2% discount period ends Sept. 15, face value then goes to Nov. 30, and a 10% penalty through the month of December, after which taxes become delinquent.

Six Right-To-Know requests were added this month. There are over 30 still pending for school Director Gerard Grega (five new this month). Also, two are pending for David F. Bradley, one with 19 items on it and the other with nine more items.

A property committee meeting will be held April 7 at 6:30 p.m. ahead of the work session that evening.

Grega sent his comments during the public comments time on the agenda. He was not present at the meeting. In those comments, he complained about the board’s policy about remote attendance in rule #006.1. He also asked for minutes from the meeting when this policy was reinstated, having been waived during the height of the pandemic.