Rolling Hills Local Board of Education approves employment contracts
Niki Wolfe
Correspondent
The Rolling Hills Local Board of Education recently approved a lengthy list of contracts for employment for the 2021-2022 school year.
This included Brenda Bates, summer lunch program cook; Sara Burris, 21st Century Program manager; Brenda Brown, summer lunch program cook; Sabrina Casey, substitute custodian, cook and secretary; Lyric Cunningham, substitute nurse; Jamie Davis, 21st Century Summer Camp cook and summer lunch program cook; Cindy Edmiston, summer lunch program cook; Kelly Fehrman, 21st Century Summer Camp paraprofessional and summer lunch program cook; Rebecca Fehrman, 21st Century Summer Camp paraprofessional; Jamie Garner, 21st Century Summer Camp paraprofessional; Heather Goodright, summer lunch program cook; Katherine Hardy, substitute secretary; Karen Hatcher, summer lunch program cook; Jennifer Hardy, 21st Century Summer Camp teacher; Dorothy Heatheringto
Rolling Hills board approves state funding of school construction project
Apex Power Group agreement pays the local share of the nearly $44M project
The Daily Jeffersonian
The Rolling Hills Board of Education approved accepting $21,486,605 from the Ohio Facilities Construction Commission during Thursday s meeting to fund a construction project that will consolidate the district to a single location south of Byesville.
The 51% local match ($22.4 million) for the $43.8 million project will be provided through an agreement reached several years ago with Apex Power Group, developers of the Guernsey Power Station. Between the financing from the state (OFCC) and the local agreement with the power plant, it basically doesn t cost the district anything, said Rolling Hills Board President Dennis Dettra.
Rolling Hills schools to return to in-person instruction
Niki Wolfe
Correspondent
BYESVILLE - An updated Covid-19 district plan was approved at a recent Rolling Hills Local Board of Education meeting.
On March 15, the school district will return to daily in-person classes. Currently, they operate on a hybrid model where they have remote learning on Mondays and in-person learning the remainder of the week. It will be live in-session learning, board president Dennis Dettra said of the March 15 date.
In other business:
Approved maternity leave for Tyler Baker
Appointed board members Darren Singleton and Brad Dudley to the safety committee
Approved the following individuals for employment: Amanda Blackledge, middle school boys track coach; Chris Clarkston, volunteer baseball coach; Coular Clendenning, assistant track coach; Jessica Clendenning, assistant track coach; Dale Eibel, volunteer baseball coach; John Epperson, head track coach; Sam Fondriest, head baseba