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�����Ƶ�We try our absolute best to get those employees back,�����Ƶ� Boggs said. �����Ƶ�We want to get everybody back that we possibly can.�����Ƶ�

The board also approved several personnel changes, including reversing the RIF notifications of six professional personnel and hiring John Adkins back as an assistant principal at Huntington High School.

In other business, Suzanne Stevens, director of special education, said about 130 students will attend the extended school year summer program based on disabilities. She said each student�����Ƶ�s IEP team meets to determine which students need services beyond the regular school year.

Stevens said the program will meet again at Martha Elementary, as the single location is ideal for staffing flexibility and transportation. She also said kitchen staff at the school will be able to provide breakfast and lunch for students in the program, which will last from 8 a.m. to noon June 17 to July 12.

During the delegations part of the board meeting, a few Cabell County voters spoke both against and for the board�����Ƶ�s excess levy, which will be on the primary election ballot May 14.

There has been an ongoing controversy among voters about whether to pass the excess levy, which would cut back the budgets of Cabell County Public Library and Greater Huntington Park and Recreation District as a result. Some say the school district is in need of the additional funding which it reallocated from what was historically the parks�����Ƶ� and libraries�����Ƶ� portion of the levy, and some say the parks and libraries need the money.

Monty Fowler spoke against the excess levy in support of the parks and libraries.

�����Ƶ�What I would like to urge the board to do after next Tuesday is to take a different path, regardless of the outcome of the election,�����Ƶ� Fowler said. �����Ƶ�There�����Ƶ�s been a lot of positive things said; there�����Ƶ�s been a lot of negative things said. I think the board would be well advised to adopt a policy of openly cooperating with other entities that have a stake in this and coming up with a real, lasting, long-term solution that we can all be happy and live with. �����Ƶ� I would urge you all to try a different approach.�����Ƶ�

Tammie Glover spoke on behalf of the Cabell County Schools Service Personnel �����Ƶsociation, which she said publicly endorses the excess levy.

�����Ƶ�Investing in our students and our schools is of the utmost importance in our association. We are service personnel. We are parents, grandparents and community members. Our schools need to be updated and staff to meet the demands of today and to continue to meet the challenges for the future,�����Ƶ� Glover said.

Glover said she has worked in Cabell County for 40 years and remembers when parents were charged fees for summer school supplies, advanced placement courses, lunches and field trips, and parents watched the news to find out schools were closed because there was no mass-notification system.

�����Ƶ�The levy and the security it brings to families that we serve is well beyond measure,�����Ƶ� Glover said. �����Ƶ�The levy ensures all students will have meals and a device provided without that family worrying about how to prepare. The levy ensures that all students will be given the same opportunities at Cabell County Schools. Voting yes on this money is a worthwhile investment to our community, schools and our world.�����Ƶ�

The board also had several celebrations, including honoring employees who completed the administrative participant class who job shadowed several administrators throughout the county.

The board will meet again for its regular meeting at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, in the board meeting room at 2850 5th Ave.