Popowich named president for second term

Popowich

The Williamsville School Board re-elected Ramona Popowich president and William Freeman vice president for the second consecutive year, at its July 10 meeting.

Popowich, who has served on the board since 2001, was elected to the leadership post in a 5-4 vote during the board's annual reorganization meeting. She was supported by Freeman, Michael Littman, Francina Spoth, and Dawn Cerra.

Freeman, who has served on the board since 1999, also garnered five votes, with Ronald Shubert abstaining from the vote and Camille Eichhorn, Stephen Munschauer, and Carrie Kahn voting against. Both officer positions are one-year terms.

Spoth was appointed board parliamentarian.

Newly elected board members Cerra and Kahn, along with Popowich, were sworn into office to begin serving three-year terms they won in the May election.

The 2007-08 meeting schedule was adopted, and the board agreed to change the start time of its public meetings to 7 p.m., beginning a half-hour earlier than in the past several years.

The meeting dates are: Aug. 14 (beginning at 5:45 p.m.); Sept. 11, Oct. 9, Nov. 13, Dec. 11, Jan. 8, Feb. 12, March 11, March 25, April 8, April 22, May 27, June 10 and July 8. The budget hearing will be on May 8 and the district vote will be May 20. All regular meetings are held in the district boardroom, 105 Casey Road.

The new board made more than 25 annual appointments and other designations including the reappointment of district clerk Mitzie Serafin and thenaming ofThe AmherstBee as its official newspaper.

In other business:

• Petrina Neureuter was appointed interim principal of Williamsville North High School, effective immediately. North Principal Robert Tubbs resigned in June, and a search is under way to find his replacement. Neureuter is currently the assistant principal at North, a position she has held since 2001.

• Daniel Walh was appointed assistant principal at Casey Middle School, replacing Jennifer Curci who recently was named principal of Orchard Park Middle School. Wahl most recently taught at the Allendale Elementary School in West Seneca and was an assistant principal and grade level administrator in the Cherry Creek School District in suburban Denver, Colo., before returning to Western New York last year.

• The board accepted the resignation of Heim Middle School Principal Charles Kramer, who will retire effective Feb. 1, 2008.