POINT PLEASANT — Weather permitting, students may get out of school a little earlier than expected.

At Tuesday’s meeting of the Mason County Board of Education (BOE), Director of Curriculum/Technology Greg Martin discussed moving three Outside School Environment (OS) Days to the end of the school calendar, making the students’ last day of school May 31 and last day for staff on June 5.

At the beginning of the school year, OS days were set for March 1, 8, 15, 22, April 12, and 19, and were placed on the calendar as optional make-up days for instructional days missed due to inclement weather. Superintendent Suzanne Dickens said she is leaving the OS days on March 1 and 22, and moving the days set for March 15 and April 12 and 19 to the end of the year. The BOE has already previously announced March 8 as a make-up day.

Martin said this was a process which takes place every winter, and sometimes changes are made and sometime changes are not, depending on how many days have been missed. Martin said Mason County Schools is required to have 180 days of instruction for all students, and Dickens said so far there have been eight days of no instruction this school year.

Dickens and Martin also noted this is still subject to change since more days may still be canceled due to inclement weather. Any changes will be put on an agenda at a later meeting for approval.

Also at the meeting, board members also approved the following agenda and personnel items:

Approved minutes, agenda 12-26, February 19, 2013. Approved Walnut Ridge Farm, as a work-based learning business, effective immediately through September 30, 2013. Approved the out-of-state travel for Kent Price, Alyssa Reymond, and the Point Pleasant Jr./Sr. High Softball Team to travel to Ashland, Ohio, from April 18 through April 20, 2013, to participate in the Wendy’s Spring Classic Tournament. PPJSHS Softball Boosters will be the funding source. Approved volunteers for Beale Elementary and Mason County Career Center, for the remainder of the 2012-13 school year.

Accepted the resignation of William Young, Language Arts Teacher, Point Pleasant Jr./Sr. High, effective at the end of the 2012-13 school year, due to retirement. Accepted the resignation of Nancy Wamsley, Substitute Teacher, Central Office Itinerant, effective February 15, 2013. Approved regular employee status for Melissa Barnett, Mark Bell, Gregory Gibbs, Bryan Hoffman, Shirley Kimbell, Marybeth Pyles, and Beth Rollins.

Approved to delete the position of Vocational Agriculture Teacher, Hannan Jr./Sr. High, (240 days), Job #501-603-P, effective 2012-13 school year. Approved to post the position of Vocational Agriculture Teacher, Hannan Jr./Sr. High, (220 days), effective 2012-13 school year. County will be the funding source. Approved the mutual agreement for Timothy Kidwell, Vocational Agriculture Teacher, Mason County Career Center (240 days) to Teacher, Vocational Agriculture, Mason County Career Center, (220 days), effective beginning 2013-14 school year. Approved the mutual agreement for Sam Nibert, Vocational Agriculture Teacher, Mason County Career Center (240 days) to Vocational Agriculture Teacher, Mason County Career Center (220 days), effective beginning 2013-14 school year.

Approved the mutual agreement for Charla Martin, Counselor, .5 Point Pleasant Intermediate School/.5 Alternative Education, to Counselor, Point Pleasant Intermediate School, effective beginning 2013-14 school year. Approved the mutual agreement for Dee Ann Clendenin, Grade Four Teacher, Ashton Elementary, to Grade Three Teacher, Ashton Elementary, effective beginning 2013-14 school year.

Approved the contract termination of Jeffrey Hilbert, Darren Jackson, Benjamin Loudin and William Richards, Band/Music/Choir Teachers for the limited purpose of reducing the contract term to 200 days and adding an addendum supplemental contract, beginning at the end of the 2012-13 school year.

Approved the contract termination of Marshall Barnhouse, Hannan Jr./Sr. High, Kimberly Bond, New Haven Elementary, Rachel Reynolds, Wahama Jr./Sr. High, Alyssa Russell, Point Pleasant Jr./Sr. High, Dwayne Russell, Beale Elementary, Valerie Schoon, Point Pleasant Primary, Cathy Smith, Point Pleasant Jr./Sr. High, Carrie Sotomayor, Leon/Roosevelt Elementary, and Sarah Thompson, Point Pleasant Intermediate School, Music/Choir Teachers, for the limited purpose of reconfiguration of the program, beginning at the end of the 2012-13 school year.

In addition to Superintendent Dickens, board members present included Thomas Nunnery, Randy Searls, Greg Fowler, Paul Sayre and Dale Shobe.

The Mason County Board of Education will meet again for a regular business meeting at 6 p.m. on March 12, at the Mason County Career Center.

(Note: The remainder of approved agenda and personnel items will appear in a later edition of the Point Pleasant Register.)