FCS approves personnel changes for school year

Franklin County Schools Board of Education approved hiring 36 additional personnel to begin the school year at its regularly scheduled meeting Aug. 18.

Kamri Fleming will begin as the head volleyball coach at Tharptown, and Darby Lindsey will begin as the head girls basketball coach at Red Bay.

Mackenzie Roberts will teach English at Tharptown High School, Kaityln Galowitch will serve as a temporary full-time CNP substitute, and Sharon Stacy will be an elementary teacher at Tharptown Elementary.

At Vina High School, David Stegall will be a math teacher, Jennifer Fuller will be a temporary substitute teacher and Joshua Thorn will be a temporary CNP substitute.

Susan Gillentine will serve as an elementary teacher at Red Bay. Karen Nichols will be a temporary CNP substitute, and Charlotte Bates and Melissa Klose will both be temporary substitute teachers at Red Bay.

At Phil Campbell Elementary school, Carol Fretwell will be an elementary teacher, and Christi Tyra will be a temporary substitute. Tina Fisher will serve as a temporary substitute for Phil Campbell High School, and Kim Trapp will be a temporary CNP substitute for Phil Campbell.

Barbara Bishop will serve as a temporary CNP substitute at East Franklin Junior High, and Kelly Dobbs Atkins will be a temporary CNP substitute at Belgreen High School.

Lori McDonnell will be a temporary substitute at Belgreen High School, and Robert Langley will be a temporary substitute at Franklin County Career Technical Center.

The board also hired Langley, Ricky Miller and Alena Freshour as substitutes for the 2020-21 school year.

For the TRACKS Program, Kendall Turbyfill, Alicia Duncan, Juliann Riley and Fretwell will work at PCES, and Savannah Smith and LaDonna Baty will work at Vina.

Savannah Latham, Tara Oliver and Bailey Oliver will work at Belgreen; Mirtha Diego and Jessica McSpadden will work with TES; and Leslie Throne and Myra Webster will work with RBES.

In other business, the FCBOE approved the mutual termination of the property lease with the Red Bay Rescue Squad. This building will now be used for bus maintenance and landscaping.

“There are multiple things on a bus which could be fixed quickly if we didn’t have to tow it across the county,” said Franklin County Superintendent Greg Hamilton. “I think it’ll be nice to have that on that side of the county.”

The next FCBOE meeting will be Sept. 14, with the work session beginning at 5 p.m.