The resignation of Jennifer Miller from the Northampton Area School District Board of Education has been accepted.

School directors voted 8-0, with Miller absent Oct. 10, to accept her letter of resignation, effective Oct. 11.

After the meeting, NASD Superintendent of Schools Joseph S. Kovalchik told a reporter for Northampton Press that Miller’s resignation letter was received last week.

Kovalchik said information on how to apply for consideration to be appointed to succeed Miller on the school board was to be posted Oct. 11 on the school district website, nasdschools.org.

Miller’s second school board term, representing Lehigh and Allen townships, was to conclude in 2019.

Depending on when the person is chosen for appointment by the school board, he or she may serve for 2017 and the remainder of 2016. The person appointed would need to file to run for the seat in the May 2017 primary and, if successful, be a candidate on the November 2017 general election ballot. Others also could file to seek election on the primary ballot for the nonpaying school board post.

Miller has been absent for the majority of school board meetings in 2016.

She was school board vice president for two years, from December 2013 to December 2015, having been elected by her fellow school board members at December 2013 and 2014 reorganization meetings.

Miller was a school director for four years and 10 months, from December 2011 through September.

She was instrumental in the Northampton Area Middle School and Secondary Campus Renovation Project, having served on the board’s facilities committee, which oversaw many of its aspects.

“I’d like to publicly thank her for all that she’s done for the school district,” Kovalchik said.

“Before she became a board member, she was involved in Lehigh Township school activities,” Dr. Michael Baird, school director, said.

Miller was an administrative assistant in the department of nursing at Moravian College for two years, from April 2014 until March.

She was an office assistant with Lehigh Township Municipal Authority from November 2010 until March 2014.

Miller took seven courses in paralegal studies/accounting at Northampton Community College, 2013-14.

She studied geography and environmental planning at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, 1989-92, and business at Palmerton Area High School, 1985-89.

Miller and her family lived in the Cherryville area. She has moved from the district.

In other business at the Oct. 10 meeting, school directors voted 8-0 to authorize:

• Administration to work with PFM for the issuance of general obligation bonds to refund the school district’s general obligation bonds Series of 2011 and Series A of 2011 for a net minimum savings target of 2 percent;

• Colonial Intermediate Unit 20 service agreement to plan, design and train administrators and teachers to implement a hybrid learning approach in Northampton Area High School at a cost of $12,500 to be funded through the Keystone to Opportunities Grant;

• Administration to prepare and solicit annual bids for the following supplies and services for the 2017-18 school year: maintenance/custodial supplies, instructional/general supplies, gasoline/diesel and fuel oil/natural gas; and

• Memorandums of agreement between Northampton Area School District and Northampton Area Educators Association 2016-17 and 2018-19.

The school board also approved, 8-0:

• Department and district coordinators and Northampton Area Middle School subject leaders’ compensations effective retroactive Sept. 1 through Aug. 31, 2017;

• Sandy Hudson, special education instructional assistant, Moore Elementary School, effective no later than Oct. 24, at $12.27 per hour, with benefits, and paid from Access Monies;

• LaRea Henninger, long-term substitute library aide, Northampton Area Middle School, effective for remainder of the 2016-17 school year, with benefits and no change in salary, and with the intent of returning to hall monitor position for the 2017-18 school year;

• Voluntary transfer of Jamie Horvath from instructional support mathematics teacher, Siegfried Elementary School, to K-12 classroom technology lead teacher, effective Nov. 2, with no change in salary or benefits;

• Voluntary transfer of Janice Gober from grade 4 teacher, Siegfried Elementary School, to mathematics instructional support teacher, Siegfried Elementary School, effective Nov. 2, with no change in salary and benefits;

• Frances Heffelfinger, long-term substitute hall monitor at Northampton Area Middle School, effective for remainder of the 2016-17 school year at $11.55 per hour, effective retroactive to Aug. 29, with limited benefits;

• Resignation for retirement of April Jensen from the position of instructional assistant, effective the end of the day, Jan. 4;

• Lataisha Diokmedjian, paid leave of absence Oct. 3-19, and an unpaid leave of absence, Oct. 20-Nov. 14, with insurance;

• Crystal Becker, extension to unpaid leave of absence through the 2016-17 school year, with insurance; and

• Revised Community Education Program’s fall 2016 roster of instructors and stipends.