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Educating and feeding the county’s students, as well as supporting their academic and extracurricular endeavors are day-to-day tasks at the Fayette County School System, and the Board of Education’s Tuesday meeting will focus on all those topics and more. The BOE will meet Dec. 3 at 6 p.m. at the central office in Fayetteville.
Anna Kincaid-Cline, the associate superintendent of curriculum, technology and instruction, will present a review and updates of student achievement results and a scorecard review to members of the board.
On the feeding front, Superintendent Gary Hough will recommend to the board a contract with New River Contracting, LLC, in the amount of $70,046.07 for the construction of a commodity warehouse walk-in freezer. The freezer will be located at the Fayette County Technical Center (Fayette Institute of Technology) and will be used for all county schools. Funding is from Child Nutrition funds and State Aid matching grants.
In an effort to support further student development academically and in extracurricular activities, the superintendent will recommend approval of a number of overnight trip requests, both in-state and out-of-state.
Among the planned trips are:
• Fayetteville PK-8 eighth grade class to travel to Colonial Williamsburg, Va., May 19-20, 2025, for their eighth-grade class trip. Travel will be by charter buses and the trip will be funded through fundraisers and FPK-8 Extracurricular Levy Funds.
• Midland Trail High School wrestling students to travel on Jan. 31 to attend the Single A Challenge Tournament Jan. 31 to Feb. 1 in Ritchie County. The trip will be paid for from the MTHS wrestling account and travel will be by Fayette County school bus.
• Fayette Institute of Technology FBLA students to travel to Camp Dawson March 5 to March 8 for the FBLA State Conference. Travel will be by Fayette County school bus and the trip will be paid for from FIT funds.
• FIT Grow Your Own Pathway to Teaching students to travel to Canaan Valley Resort on March 11-13 to attend the West Virginia Educators Rising State Leadership Conference. FIT funding will pay for the trip and a Fayette County school bus will be used.
• FIT Grow Your Own Pathway to Teaching students to travel to Orlando, Fla., June 26-29 to attend the West Virginia Educators Rising National Leadership Conference. FIT funds will pay for the trip, which will be by plane.
• FIT Skills students to travel to Fairmont March 27-29 to compete in the West Virginia State Skills Conference. Travel by Fayette County school bus will be paid for from FIT funds.
• Oak Hill High School wrestling students to travel overnight to three competitions: Jefferson High School, tournament, Dec. 20-21; Fairmont, WSAZ Tournament, Jan. 10-11; and Huntington, state tournament, March 6-8. OHHS Wrestling Boosters’ funds will pray for the trips by Fayette County school bus.
• OHHS girls basketball students will travel to the Clarksburg/Bridgeport area Jan. 17-18 for the 2025 East Fairmont Classic Basketball Tournament. Travel will be by Fayette County school bus and funding will be provided from the OHHS Girls Basketball Boosters.
• Oak Hill Middle wrestling students will travel to Huntington on a Fayette County school bus to take part in the WSAZ Tournament Jan. 31-Feb. 1. Funding will be from the OHMS wrestling account and parents of students attending.
• FIT FBLA students will fly to Anaheim, Calif., in June to take part in the FBLA National Conference. Funding will be from FIT funds.
• FIT Skills students will compete in the National Skills Conference June 23-27 in Atlanta, Ga. FIT funds will pay for the charter bus.
The superintendent also will present to the board several personnel matters, including professional transfer and leave requests, along with resignations and retirements; professional substitute, service, service substitute and extracurricular/extra duty employment requests; along with service resignations.
Hough also will offer a report to the board and a number of financial matters will be addressed.
In an executive session, the BOE will consider the superintendent’s approval of student disposition in a student discipline hearing.
The BOE will meet on Tuesday, Dec. 17 at 6 p.m. at the board’s office in Fayetteville.
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