Drew Central Superintendent Wayne Fawcett, far left, responds to questions from an attorney at a Drew Central personnel hearing Thursday night. The school board rejected Fawcett's recommendations to not renew portions of football coach James Bell and cheer coach Melaine Brotherton's personnel contracts.
After nearly four hours of testimony at a pair of personnel hearings Thursday night the Drew Central School Board with no dissenting votes rejected Superintendent Wayne Fawcett’s recommendation not to renew the football coach and junior high cheer coach’s contracts.
Fawcett recommended that James Bell’s head football coach and athletic director contracts not be renewed for the 2011-12 school year. He also recommended that Melanie Brotherton’s contracts as the junior high head cheer coach and high school assistant cheer coach not be renewed. He did not recommend that the teaching portions of their contracts not be renewed.
The board rejected Fawcett’s recommendations. Board member Rene Knowles did not attend the hearings.
Bell, along with Brotherton, requested a public hearing at which Bell was represented by Dr. Carolyn Jones, with the Arkansas Education Association, and Brotherton was represented by Little Rock attorney Greg Alagood.
Below are reports from each hearing.
