By Don Rutledge
FPS Staff Writer
Several agenda items were handled by the Buckeye Career Center Board of Education at their March 18 meeting, including the purchase of a truck driving school and the renewal of the assistant principal’s contract.
The American Professional Truck Driving School was purchased at a cost of $1,400,000 (separate story in this issue), while the contract of Assistant Principal Trent Edie was renewed for three years (2025–2028) at a salary of $113,086.
In other business, the board:
– Set the public auction of a property at 260 Corral Drive NE, New Philadelphia, which is owned by the Buckeye Board of Education and no longer needed for school purposes, for May 13 beginning at 6 p.m.
– Hired eight individuals as summer maintenance workers.
– Hired Tim Ferguson, Lindsey Leonard and Brett Hillyer as Adult Education Law Enforcement Training Academy instructors, and Michael Mosser as an Adult Education Fire and Emergency Services instructor.
– Accepted the resignation of Jay Fisher as Adult Education EMS coordinator, effective May 30.
– Set the next meeting for April 15 at 7 p.m.