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PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Board of Education announced Monday it is moving its regular meeting from tonight in the Jefferson Elementary Center auditorium to Feb. 3 due to weather.

During the meeting on Feb. 3, the board will be celebrating its educators throughout the district. The board will be recognizing teachers for their successful completion of the Wilson Reading System Level 1 Certification, a professional development program preparing educators to teach students with dyslexia or reading gaps, and their completion of LETRS Volumes 1 and 2.

The board will also hear updates from principals and staff from Hamilton and Jackson middle schools on how the merger with former VanDevender students is going. Students from VanDevender were split between the two middle schools after closing its doors for good at the end of the last school year.

The board will also hear an update on attendance from Chris Rutherford, director of attendance, and an update on bond finances from Kaylee Litman, finance director.

During the consent agenda the board is expected to vote on the recommend approval of awarding an Excess Material Haul Off Bid to Jimmie Harper Construction to haul off approximately 22,000 cubic yards of excess material at the new Lubeck Elementary School property in the amount of $11.25 per cubic yard, at a maximum amount of $250,000.

Superintendent Christie Willis and Kaleb Lawrence, assistant superintendent of operations, said the excess material consists of earth, dirt and stone produced when leveling for the foundation of the new building. Willis said there were other options but they would cost the district more. She said one option was to use the valley next to the property but that the district would have to pay for drainage to be added which would cost around $400,000.

The board is also expected to vote on the consideration and possible action to ratify the superintendent’s recommendation of a paid suspension for substitute teacher Justin Beha, for Jan. 15, and an unpaid suspension beginning Jan. 16, pending investigation. Willis said she could not speak on the nature of the suspension.

The meeting is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. and is open to the public. It will also be streamed live on the district’s website.