SAINT CLAIR - The Saint Clair Area school board approved the resignation of acting Superintendent James A. Gilmartin on Wednesday night.
Principal Jason Bendle said that Gilmartin's resignation was due to medical reasons and no other decision for a replacement has been made at this time.
Gilmartin, a retired superintendent from the Hamburg Area School District who previously served as acting superintendent for the Pine Grove Area School District, took over as acting superintendent for Saint Clair Area on Nov. 1.
Gilmartin took over for Kendy K. Hinkel, who was superintendent from 2007 until Oct. 31, 2013. She is now the superintendent in the Pine Grove Area School District, which hired her with a four-year contract at $115,000 a year during a special meeting Oct. 3 to fill the position vacated by Brian Uplinger, who left June 28 to take a superintendent position with the Central Greene School District, Waynesburg.
In other business, the board approved a budget freeze for the remainder of the 2013-14 academic year.
The board also adopted the 2014-15 preliminary general fund budget in the amount of $11,278,124.
The proposed 2014-15 preliminary budget is available for public inspection and will be adopted Feb. 12.