Although the final license is still to be granted to Current Hydro, LLC for the New Cumberland Hydro Electric plant, the Board of Education and Hancock County Commission have agreed upon an original PILOT project payment schedule. The proposed escalating PILOT/lease payment is $400,000.00 with $50,000.00 going into a Community Investment Fund. The 40-year, escalating lease will ultimately bring $526,614.00 the County and Board.
100% of the lease in Hancock County consists of leasing property to Current Hydro. $3,500.00 per month is the lease amount (calculated using comparable $ per acre rate. 10.5% of the PILOT payment is the lease amount, as the PILOT payment fluctuate, the lease amount will be adjusted using this ratio.)
Good news for Hancock County schools was contained in its overall ranking in State test scores. Overall, the 3rd & 4th grade combined scores ranked 1st in the State in Math. New Manchester Elementary ranked 13th in the State out of 379 Elementary Schools in Math. Oak Glen Middle ranked 3rd among 112 middle schools in Math. In overall rankings Hancock County rank 6 out of 55 counties in English Language Arts. In Mathematics, the County ranked 3rd out of 55 counties and in Science it ranked 13 out of 55 counties in Science.
In other business, the Board:
**Accepted the resignations of Donna Ferguson and Connor Mort as countywide substitute teachers;
**Approved Camden Barr as a countywide substitute teacher;
**Transferred Sydney Doughty from substitute teacher countywide to Grade 8 Math teacher at Weir Middle;
**Assigned the following teachers as mentors: Erin McConnachie – Allison Elementary; Heidi Markish – New Manchester Elementary, Jackie Fodor – Weirton Elementary, Michelle Hall, Weirton Elementary; Jennifer Curtis, Weirton Elementary,Fran Capaldi, Weirton Elementary, Hymandria Martin-Ferrell, Weirton Elementary; Sara DeVecchis, Weir Middle; Stacy Riggs,, Weir Middle, Rachelle Jenkins – Oak Glen High, Stacey Porter – Weir High, Valerie Dawson, Allison Elementary, Sarah Howells, Weirton Elementary, Ashley Bell, Weirton Elementary; Errin Basil, Weirton Elementary, Kathleen Nail – Weirton Elementary, Brooke Haynes, Oak Glen Middle, Kristen Kuntupis, Weir Middle, Lisa Burk – Weir Middle, and Mary Lyons – Weir High School Nurse.
**Accepted resignations from Robert Conant as Co-Head, Archery, Oak Glen Middle, and Chris Pugh, Assistant Football, Weir High;
**Accepted the resignation of Laura Palmer as Supervisory Aide/AM, Weirton Elementary;
**Approved Ashley Dunfee as Substitute Custodian;
**Approved administrative release for three substitute bus drivers: Michael Watkins, Sr., Richard Kaczmarek, and Austin Freeman’
**Transfers were approved for Jessica Mercer Custodian IV/GM, Weir High; Rob Hayward to Bus 181;
**Assignments were approved for Jaedyn Hissam, supervisory aide/AM, Weir High, Kassady Taylor, supervisory aide/AM, Weir High;
**Policy GCC – Dock days was not acted upon, Superintendent Dan Enich said there are still questions and the policy is not ready to put out-for-comment. Policy GCD, staff vacations & holidaysm and GCGB, arrangements substitute professional staff. Policy GCGB, experience credit for critical trade employees will go out for 30-day comment;
**The Board sign a memorandum of understanding with the State Police Barracks which sits adjacent to the Rockefeller Vocational Center.
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