An assistant to the Northampton Area School District athletic director has been appointed.

NASD Board of Education voted 9-0 to appoint Matthew Frailey as assistant to the athletic director, effective for the fall, winter and spring seasons of the 2018-19 school year, with a stipend of $3,100, per sports season, with no additional benefits.

At the July 16 board meeting, school directors also voted 9-0 to approve:

Additions to the elementary instrumental stipends for the 2018-19 school year: Michael Baer, elementary band, George Wolf Elementary School, $884; Lori Emery, elementary band, Lehigh Elementary School, $884; Kristy Young, elementary orchestra, Moore Elementary School, $884, Susan Lischner, elementary orchestra, Siegfried Elementary School, $884

Kathleen Schatz, an unpaid FMLA child-rearing leave, Aug. 20 through Sept. 19, with insurance, and an unpaid child-rearing leave of absence, Sept. 20 through on or about March 26, 2019, without insurance

Revised list of teachers, school nurses and 1:1 instructional assistants to provide extended school year and chapter 15, section 504 services for summer 2018

Revised list of professional and support staff transfers effective with the 2018-19 school year

Resignation of Chad Friend, science teacher, effective July 2

Additions and deletions to the substitute list for the 2018-19 school year

Public official bonds through Willis of Pennsylvania Inc., with Fidelity & Deposit Company of Maryland as the carrier, as follows: Denise Vilkauskas, assistant board secretary, one-year term, July 1 through June 30, 2019, $25,000 limit, $88; and Matt Sawarynski, board treasurer, one-year term, July 1 through June 30, 2019, $25,000 limit, $150

Real estate tax exonerations: NASD 2018, $1,081.98, Route 329 property; and NASD 2018, $3,418.21, Hummel property adjacent to Lehigh Elementary School

Lease agreement between First Student Inc. and NASD, Aug. 1 through July 31, 2019, for parking of buses at NASD maintenance building for four fiscal years at $1,500 per month

Northampton Area High School, Northampton Area Middle School and the district’s elementary schools handbooks for the 2018-19 school year

Northampton Area School District organizational chart

Accept, with appreciation, the donation of office supplies from Bon Ton Stores Inc.’s distribution center for use throughout the district, at a value of $1,000