Five properties in the Glenmaura section of Moosic received Riverside School District’s blessing Monday night to go 10 years without paying property taxes.
Glenmaura Corporate Center still needs approvals from Moosic and Lackawanna County for the Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance Act requests. If granted, any new tenants on the undeveloped properties would be exempt from property taxes for 10 years.
“We did this to be competitive with the other (industrial) parks,” said James McDonough of Hemingway Development Corp.
The properties were listed as owned by John Cognetti, Geisinger Clinic, Tier II Properties, Hemingway Development LP and the Scranton Lackawanna Industrial Building Co., an arm of the Greater Scranton Chamber of Commerce.
Riverside Superintendent Paul Brennan called the tax exemption an investment in the district’s future.
“We’re putting things in for the long-term success of Riverside,” Mr. Brennan said at the meeting. “I think the timing is perfect.”
In other business, the board appointed Michael Cole as the district’s special education director at a salary of $76,500. The motion passed with a vote of 7-1. Board member Barbara Fedor cast the lone dissenting vote.
The board unanimously appointed Sophie Genella as school psychologist at a salary of $55,100 and Denise Golshan as a physics/chemistry secondary teacher at $54,790 per year.
Pamela Insalaca was appointed long-term gifted substitute teacher at a salary of $47,635 and Elizabeth DeAngelo was hired as an elementary teacher at $44,144.
The board named John Colwell and Robert Davis Jr. as fall weightlifting instructors at stipends of $800 each.
Megan Hulse was appointed as the district’s new band director at a stipend of $5,452 plus $82.43 per parade.
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