Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, June 4, 1993 TAG: 9306040284
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Medium
Board Chairman Ron Chaffin will send a letter to Asbury making the offer. Asbury is in the third year now of his first four-year contract.
The board met privately last week with Asbury as part of the evaluation process, and again Thursday morning at a closed-session breakfast meeting lasting several hours.
Under terms of Asbury's existing contract, the board had to inform him before the fourth year whether it intended to offer a new contract.
Rhea Saltz was the only board member who did not favor a new four-year contract, and he said that was not meant to reflect negatively on Asbury.
Saltz said he would rather have offered a two-year contract, because Pulaski County will change its method of School Board selection in two years from appointment by the Board of Supervisors to direct election.
That could mean a lot of changes in board membership, he said, and throw a superintendent and board together when they might not be comfortable with one another.
Before the board went into closed session Thursday morning to continue going over the evaluation with Asbury, Chaffin said the procedure had been very positive.
The board has two meetings scheduled this month. Its regular meeting would have fallen on Thursday night, the same time as the Pulaski County High School graduation, and was postponed until June 15.
At that meeting, the principals from each county school will give the board brief status reports. "We thought it might be important for you to hear in summary fashion the progress that's been made this year," Asbury said.
The board will hold a meeting to wind up its fiscal year June 29. One of the matters it probably will discuss then is the block scheduling change at the high school proposed for next year.
by CNB