In other business, Tamaqua Area School Board, on an 8-0 vote, with Director Melanie Dillman absent,recently approved the following for the 2016-17 school year:

• Alexa Hauer, Amanda Peel, and Jessica Schaefer, professional employee contracts• Heather Metric, occupational therapist, mentor for Heather Bleiler, occupational therapist• Jessica Schaefer, special education teacher, mentor for Jacqueline Murphy, special education teacher• Randa Hull, high school foreign language teacher, mentor for Greg Haney, high school foreign language teacher, retroactive to February 2016• Jacqueline Ann McMullen and Brian M. Scatton, as professional substitute teachers• Frank Berleth, Anthony Curtier, Amy Danisavach, Thomas Flamini, Lisa Frederick, Jon Herbert, Suzanne Lobichusky, Don Ressler, and Joel Whitehouse as professional substitute guest teachers• The resignations of Michael Perkins and Dianna Keich as part-time paraprofessionals, effective immediately• Susan Coombe, Stephanie Metters, and Beth Stolarski, from substitute paraprofessionals to part-time paraprofessionals• Carole Blew, Jane Dowling, Marie Dunn, and Heather Griffin as highly qualified, part-time paraprofessionals• Lauren Pavalko and Linda Valenti as not highly qualified, part-time paraprofessionals• Cailee Bittner as a substitute paraprofessional• The administrative and confidential salary schedule• The substitute clerical list, along with Dee Harvan as an addition to the substitute clerical list• The substitute cafeteria monitor list.• The authorization of the district business manager to bid both the entrance replacement and the loading dock repair projects at West Penn Elementary School• An agreement with the Schuylkill Intermediate Unit 29 for Special Education Services for a tentative amount of $422,155• Participation with the Schuylkill Intermediate Unit 29 for the Child Nutrition Program• Participation with the Schuylkill County AVTS Operating Agency for the Child Nutrition Program• A one-year contract with Behavioral Health Associates• The PA Treatment and Healing for Alternate Education for Disruptive Youth agreement• Plancon Part K for the 2015 general obligation note• The lunch contract with St. Jerome's Parochial School• The bus routes and stops, along with bus drivers• The appointment of board President Larry Wittig as a member of the AVTS authority• The 2014-15 audit• A policy related to confidentiality and maintenance of student records