Fourteen more retirements are anticipated in Northampton Area School District.

The NASD Board of Education voted 9-0 at the Feb. 14 meeting to approve Shelley Ladd, guidance secretary, effective March 10; Michelle Meade, art teacher, effective June 3; Sallyann Madden, library science teacher, effective June 3; Deborah Collins, certified school nurse, effective June 3; Brenda Serensits, mathematics teacher, effective June 3; Silke Keeler, network specialist, effective June 30; Rebecca Scheirer, special education teacher, effective Oct. 31; Annamarie Zeky, first-grade elementary teacher, effective June 3; Cheri Voth, first-grade elementary teacher, effective Aug. 11; Cynthia Jeckell, second-grade elementary teacher, effective Sept. 17; Wendy Seip, third-grade elementary teacher, effective June 30; Mark Keeler, security officer, effective June 4; Cynthia Hoch, second-grade elementary teacher, effective June 3; and Craig Mogel, fourth-grade elementary teacher, effective June 3.

The board of education also voted 9-0 at the Feb. 14 board meeting to approve the hiring of Heather Royer, long-term substitute first-grade teacher, Siegfried Elementary School, Jan. 20 through the 2021-22 school year, at $295.51 per diem; Alex Heckman, short-term substitute fourth-grade teacher, Lehigh Elementary School, March 10 through the 2021-22 school year at $125 per day; Christopher Creyer, short-term substitute teacher, Northampton Area Middle School, Jan. 20-May 31, at $150 per diem; and Ashley Benner, speech and language pathologist, at $62,340, prorated, with benefits.

Additionally during the Feb. 14 meeting, the board of education voted 9-0 to approve the 2021-22 spring season head coaches and assistant coaches with designated payments, July 1, 2021, through June 30.

Revised curricula including advanced Google applications, personal finances, sports entertainment marketing, technology use in the workplace, honors algebra II, calculus I, geometry, honors geometry, culture and conversation I, German II, German III, honors German III, German IV and honors German IV was approved Feb. 14.

Other Feb. 14 approvals include a second addendum with Keystone Collections Group, effective Jan. 1 for five years with no change in compensation; settlement of real estate tax assessment appeal filed by Seritage KMT Finance LLC in Northampton County Court of Common Pleas, July 1, 2021, and July 1, 2022, for a tax parcel in Lehigh Township; services agreement with Lancaster-Lebanon Intermediate Unit 13 for compliance with Act 168 of 2014 for a three-year agreement at approximately $2,000 for the length of the contract; fuel oil bids for the 2022-23 school year awarded by Northampton, Monroe, Pike County Joint Purchasing Board; and the Catalogue Fixed Discount Program awarded by the IU-20 Joint Purchasing Board, Jan. 1-Dec. 21.

The NASD website COVID-19 data dashboard seven-day building totals, March 1-7, as of March 7, are: Northampton Area High School, 2; Northampton Area Middle School, 2; Borough Elementary Schools, 1; Moore Elementary School, 0; Lehigh Elementary School, 0; George Wolf Elementary School, 1; and district administration building, 0.

The number of positive cases of COVID-19 in NASD for the 2021-22 school year to date is 1,130.

The board of education next meets 6:30 p.m. March 14 in the NAHS auditorium, 1619 Laubach Ave., Northampton.