MINERSVILLE - The Minersville Area school board approved a motion Monday night to discontinue a petition for Schuylkill County to accept a bid in the private sale of a property in Reilly Township.
The school district's solicitor, attorney Nicholas A. Quinn, Pottsville, said that the district had been petitioning the county to accept a $25,000 bid in the private sale of the property that has been off the books since the 1940s.
The motion was accepted since the property, only known as parcel No. 24-2-25, was sold at a judicial sale on Jan. 10 to Watermelon Realty LLC, Route 183, Schuylkill Haven, for $71,000.
In other business, the school board approved the appointment of Jamie Rizzardi to the elementary center as a temporary professional employee effective Dec. 11, 2013, at a salary of $34,700.
Minersville Area Elementary Center Principal James Yacobacci said that Rizzardi will be teaching all four sections of social studies in sixth grade and a double period of sixth-grade math.
Rizzardi spent the last five years working at Schuylkill Intermediate Unit 29.