{"id":207929,"date":"2026-07-16T20:27:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=207929"},"modified":"2026-07-16T20:27:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:27:54","slug":"special-vantage-boe-meeting-is-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/07\/16\/special-vantage-boe-meeting-is-brief\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Vantage BOE meeting is brief"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent staff<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week\u2019s special meeting of the Vantage Career Center Board of Education centered around personnel matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday afternoon\u2019s meeting lasted less than five minutes and began with a public hearing regarding the retire-rehire of career technology instructor Kevin Van Oss. No one opposed it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The board approved one-year contractors for Emily Heck, special education coordinator; Doug Hughes, intervention specialist, and Lucas Metcalfe, sports exercise therapy instructor. An $800 stipend was approved for Metcalfe as a mentor, and Metcalfe, Heck and Hughes were approved for 3-5 additional days at a per diem rate. The board also approved JR Long as adult education fire coordinator and Austin Miller as a firefighting instructor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One resignation was on the agenda and was accepted by the board \u2013 Wendy Baumle, sports exercise therapy instructor, effective at the end of last school year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The board went into executive session to discuss other personnel matters but outside of adjournment, no other action was taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next meeting of the Vantage Career Center Board of Education will be at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, August 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent staff This week\u2019s special meeting of the Vantage Career Center Board of Education centered around personnel matters. Tuesday afternoon\u2019s meeting lasted less than five minutes and began with a public hearing regarding the retire-rehire of career technology instructor Kevin Van Oss. No one opposed it.&nbsp; The board approved one-year contractors for Emily Heck, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 16:19:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207930,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207929\/revisions\/207930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}