CLEARFIELD – Pennsylvania Grain Processing will withdraw its tax appeal, announced Sam Maney, business administrator for the Clearfield Area School District, at Monday night’s regular board meeting.
PGP had appealed the taxes assessed on its property. However, Maney said he was contacted last week by Borough Operations Manager Leslie Stott, who advised of PGP’s plans to withdraw its tax appeal.
Maney said PGP officials plan to contact Clearfield County Solicitor Kim Kesner to proceed with the withdrawal process and to make it official. PGP officials, he said, told Stott that they want to work more with the community.
In other business, board members tabled action on two, proposed policies for further revisions. Those policies were “conduct toward staff members” and “controlled substances/paraphernalia.”
Board member Tim Morgan called attention to both of the proposed policies. First, he recommended revising conduct toward staff members to include board members, coaches, volunteers, visitors to the district, etc.
“There’s no mention of any of those categories of individuals,” he said.
Board member Dr. Michael Spencer asked if it was necessary because the board members could be considered as volunteers and coaches as district employees.
Morgan countered, saying students are subjected to other people who are not affiliated with the district. He said they should be expected to treat them in the same regard as school staff.
Superintendent Terry Struble said it would probably be wise to include the categories of individuals mentioned by Morgan.
So far as the proposed controlled substances policy, Morgan pointed out that if asked by the district, a student doesn’t have to submit to a drug/alcohol test. If the student refuses, he wondered if the district could automatically consider him/her under the influence.
The solicitor requested time to further investigate the proposed revision to the controlled substances/paraphernalia policy.
