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WILKES-BARRE &#8212; Plans for high school consolidation may increasingly dominate Wilkes-Barre Area School Board meetings, but other business remains on the agendas.The board voted Monday to enter agreements with four outside agencies:&#8226; Children&#8217;s Service Center of Wyoming Valley, Inc., to provide the educational component and therapeutic education programs for district students who enter the center&#8217;s partial hospitalization program, at a cost of $120 per student per day.&#8226; The Meadows/UCBH of Centre Hall, &#8220;to provide a diagnostic/prescriptive approach to district student&#8217;s academic needs during hospitalization at the Meadows Psychiatric Center&#8221; at a cost of $60 per day.&#8226; The Luzerne County Department of Probation Services for support of the &#8220;School/Community Based Probation Project,&#8221; with the county providing a probation officer to supervise students under court supervision.&#8226; Seneca Valley School District &#8220;to supply an online accessible curriculum and assessments for students&#8221; at a cost of $68,000 for 25 regular education students and $680 per quarter per additional student.The board also granted unpaid leave requests for the upcoming school year to Kelly Polacheck, Jason Blazosek and Janelle Burcicki. Unpaid leave has become a sticking point for the board in the wake of public controversy when elementary teacher Elise Mosca used leave time to appear on ABC TV&#8217;s reality show &#8220;The Bachelor.&#8221; The board granted a second leave to Mosca but rejected a request for a third, prompting the union to file a grievance that is pending.The board renewed the district&#8217;s student and athletic insurance with IDM Consulting Services at a total premium of $83,856.The board also made the following appointments: Carmen Flores as secondary Spanish long-term substitute teacher; Christine Edmundson as high school art teacher; Molly Gorman as long-term high school math substitute teacher; Heather Green, Carolyn Kominski, Sarah Reedy, Ashleigh Osolnick, and Mary Siejak as special education teachers; Kyle Paul as special education long-term substitute teacher; Carol Davenport as school resource officer/police officer at the Mackin School when renovations are complete and it is reopened; Jamie Pesotski as 30-hour-per week locker room aide; Shantel Grohowski as 27.5-hour-per-week office aid; Joseph Gallamo as 32.5-hour-per-week para professional; Sharon Yale as long term 20-hour kindergarten aide; Rosemary DeTrafford as substitute teacher associate and Jamaar Taylor as substitute custodian.Two paid coaches were appointed at GAR High School: Stephen Butler as junior high head football coach and David Oldziejewski as cross-country varsity head coach.<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta>By Mark Guydishmguydish@www.timesleader.com</bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta>Reach Mark Guydish at 570-991-6112 or on Twitter @TLMarkGuydish.</shirttailMeta></div>

Wilkes-Barre Area School Board awards contracts, makes appointments