Limestone County school board members hired and transferred employees and handled other business during their meeting Monday at Elkmont High School. The board took the following action:

• Agreed to hiring the following people: Mandy Phillips as math teacher at Ardmore High School; Lisa Beddingfield as part-time CNP worker/assistant at Cedar Hill Elementary; School; Elizabeth Bates as special-education inclusion assistant at Clements High School; Lesle Tate as physical education teacher at Clements; Mark Newsome as health/physical education at East Limestone High School; Jennifer Pollock as general science teacher at East Limestone; Aimee Pressnell as bus driver at East Limestone and Creekside Elementary School; Carrie Gervais as itinerant speech pathologist at Owens Elementary School and West Limestone High School; Michele Selfridge as itinerant speech pathologist at Piney Chapel Elementary School and Creekside Elementary School; Ashley Coffman as elementary teacher at Tanner High School; Kerri Pack as ACCESS lab facilitator at West Limestone; and Margie Adams as full-time utility bus driver at bus garage.

• Agreed to transfer the following people: Tonna Heard to ACCESS facilitator at Ardmore; Ruth Brewer to special-education bus assistant at Cedar Hill Elementary School and Ardmore; Stephanie Watson to CNP worker/assistant at Creekside; Erika Hall to itinerant speech pathologist at Creekside and East Limestone; Chad Drake to driver education/head varsity boys basketball coach at East Limestone; Kim Tucker to ACCESS facilitator at East Limestone; Renee Beaube to itinerant speech pathologist at Elkmont and Reid Elementary School; Donna Roop to ACCESS facilitator at Elkmont; Beth Carter to special-education preschool instructional assistant at Johnson; Pennie Davis to special-education preschool instructional assistant at Johnson; Patricia Higginbotham to special-education preschool instruction assistant at Johnson; Kathy Hudson to special-education preschool teacher at Johnson; Karen Pressnell to special-education preschool instructional assistant at Johnson; Meredith Waggoner to special-education preschool teacher at Johnson; Shannon Garrison to math teacher at BEST Academy; Carl Goolsby to tech school bus driver at BEST Academy; Angela Vanhoozer to secretary/bookkeeper at Piney Chapel; Karen Brown to reading coach at Tanner; Tennille Harkins to ACCESS facilitator at Tanner; Sharon Gallien to elementary curriculum coordinator at Central Office; and Robbie Lauderdale to secondary curriculum coordinator at Central Office.

• Approved the following substitutes: Laurie Page as secretary at bus garage; Matt Poff as maintenance worker at bus garage; Sue Roach as teacher at Creekside; and Leigh Davis as teacher at Creekside.

• Accepted the resignations of Sheila Bates as technical specialist at Clements; Paige Gould as secretary/bookkeeper at Piney Chapel; Rita Jackson as language arts teacher at West Limestone; Danny Bates as bus driver at Tanner; and Nancy King as special-education instructional assistant at the Limestone County Career Technical Center.

• Named the following as designated assistant principals: Roger Cobb at Cedar Hill; Rebecca Valenzuela at Johnson; Janice Sutton at Owens; Angie Barnes at Piney Chapel; and Matt Taylor at Reid.

• Approved contracts with the following: Patricia Byrnes for special-education occupational therapy services; $65,000 to Finatra for special-education mentor. Board voted 6-1, with Board President Earl Glaze opposed because he said the services could be covered in-house; Finatra for special-education psychometrist; Finatra for special-education visual impaired specialist; Robin Irwin for special-education physical therapy services; The Riley Behavioral and Educational Center for special-needs children; Ability Plus for special-education transportation; and Laura Aldridge, Nicole Allen, Melinda Bohanon, Monica Eskridge, Kari Forsythe, Angela Hart, Angela Hermosillo, Melissa Hunt, Kim Johnson, Kristen Jones, Holly Nye and Denean Winton for special-education parent transportation.

Also Monday, board members took the following action:

• Agreed to hire Davis Architects of Birmingham to design the special education building at Tanner High School, which is expected to cost about $700,000. Fee will be based on percentage of project bid.

• Agreed to pay $56,300 for Spanish I and Spanish II computer software.

• Agreed to pay American Fidelity $65 a month to monitor allocations for 403(b) services.

• Agreed to move the special education preschool program from Piney Chapel Elementary School to Johnson Elementary School due to inadequate space.

• Granted Limestone County Water and Sewer Authority’s requests for property easements at Johnson Elementary School and Elkmont High School in order to install sewer service.