A Northampton Area High School athletic director and assistant athletic director have been appointed.

Northampton Area School District Board of Education voted 7-0 in separate votes, with two school directors absent, at the April 14 meeting to approve Matthew Frailey as athletic director and Jennifer Bodnar as assistant athletic director.

NASD Superintendent of Schools Joseph S. Kovalchik praised Frailey, promoted from assistant athletic director, for his role as acting athletic director after the March 2 resignation of athletic director Shaun Murray was accepted 9-0 at the Feb. 10 school board meeting.

Frailey’s appointment as athletic director was effective April 15 at a salary of $110,000, with benefits.

Bodnar’s appointment as assistant athletic director is effective July 1 at a salary of $90,000, with benefits.

Bodnar is a health and physical education teacher at Whitehall High School.

Frailey, appointed assistant to the athletic director at the July 16, 2018, board meeting, starting with the 2018-19 school year, was appointed NAHS assistant athletic director at the Aug. 14, 2023, board meeting, effective Oct. 16, 2023.

Murray was appointed athletic director at East Stroudsburg South, East Stroudsburg Area School District.

In other business at the April 14 meeting, school directors voted 7-0 to approve:

• Adopt 2025-26 Northampton Community College budget of $77,488,289 with NASD portion $1,065,451

• Adopt 2025-26 Bethlehem Area Vocational-Technical School budget of $15,555,038 with NASD portion $3,339,635

• Adopt 2025-26 CIU-20 general operating budget of $4,431,923 with NASD portion $47,557

• Collaborative agreement, contract for services between Community Services for Children Inc., Head Start of the Lehigh Valley and NASD for 2025-26 to implement two Head Start pre-Ks for 40 pre-K students in NASD. There is a $40,000 cost to NASD from NASD Title I funding for the two pre-K classrooms.

• Collaborative agreement, contract for services between Community Services for Children Inc. and NASD for 2025-26 to implement Pre-K Counts classroom at Franklin, Lehigh and Moore elementary schools. There is no cost to NASD.

• Bids for paper and janitorial supplies of $111,200.14, awarded by Northampton, Monroe, Pike County Joint Purchasing Board

• Depositories for school funds for 2025-26 fiscal year: Northern Bank and Trust Company, Pennsylvania Local Government Investment Trust and Pennsylvania School District Liquid Asset Fund

• Contract of $8,750 with FutureThink for elementary school boundary analysis

• NASD special education plan by signing letter of assurance, affirmations by school board president and NASD superintendent

• Professional status and tenure for teachers who completed three years of teaching and received six satisfactory evaluations: Sheila Kocher, NAHS; and Megan Marker, Northampton Area Middle School

• Supporting Student Success: Summer Transition Program for School Counselors, budgeted in 2024-25 Title IV grant, and list of NASD school counselors and their compensation during summer. Counselors are paid at per diem rate through 2024-25 Title IV grant.

• Tara Mrazik, Matthew Greenplate, Neali Feimster, Ryan Brobst and medical chaperone Bridgette Isaac to attend DECA International Career Development Conference with 25 DECA students April 25-30 in Orlando, Fla. The maximum cost to NASD is $3,113.59, included in board-approved 2024-25 budget.

• Mandatory attendance of Karl Kozlowski, school security officer, at National Association of School Resource Officers’ Basic School Resource Officer Training Course July 28-Aug. 1 in East Stroudsburg, at $600, plus mileage, included in 2025-26 NASD security budget

• Shanna McCarthy, school psychology intern for the district, effective Aug. 25, at a salary of $25,000

• Tricia Meyer, 1:1 special education instructional assistant at Lehigh Elementary School, effective April 16 at $20.13 per hour

• Elias Younes, third-shift custodian at NAHS, retroactively effective April 2, at $29.27 per hour with benefits

• Lisa Schoeneberger, second-shift custodian at George Wolf Elementary School, effective March 31 retroactively at $29.27 per hour with benefits

• Resignation for retirement for Gerald Smale, skilled maintenance worker in the maintenance building, effective Aug. 1

• Revisions for board policy 111-lesson plans

• Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit student driver education program agreement

• List of revised community education classes and roster of instructors with stipends for spring session II, 2024-25 school year

• Accept with appreciation $10,000 donation from Marcia Buckno to support NAHS band and color guard

The school board will next meet 6:30 p.m. May 12 in the auditorium at NAHS, 1619 Laubach Ave.