DIXFIELD — Dozens of new appointments, new employees, transfers and resignations were handled by the Western Foothills Regional School Unit 10 board Monday night.

Staff are scheduled to attend an opening day workshop on Aug. 30, and students begin classes Aug. 31.

The resignation of Dirigo elementary teacher Kelly Gilbert, Mountain Valley Middle School math teacher Robby Green, and Nezinscot region assistant principal and athletic director Brian Laramee means the Personnel Committee will be busy finding replacements within the next few weeks.

The resignation of Allie Burke, the director of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Afterschool Program, was also accepted.

Also, the illness of longtime Rumford Elementary School Principal Anne Chamberlin means that that school’s head teachers, Denise Richard and Cheryl Sevigny, will be preparing the school for its first day, this year.

Superintendent Tom Ward said he and Assistant Superintendent/Curriculum Coordinator Gloria Jenkins will also check in at the school periodically during the first few days.

Several new appointees were introduced, including Mark Lopez as a one-year interim Spanish teacher at Dirigo High School, Kelly Houghton as a one-year math interventionist teacher at Rumford Elementary School, and Ryanne Brown,Title I math teacher, and Tannya Morris, lifeskills teacher, both at Mountain Valley Middle School.

Nearly two dozen coaches or club advisers were appointed, including one that caused some discussion.

Special education teacher Tom Danylik was appointed to the stipend position of assistant athletic director at Mountain Valley High School. He will assist part-time athletic director Jim Aylward, who is also responsible for teaching one or two English classes.

Rumford board member, Linda Westleigh, said the board hadn’t known about the newly created assistant athletics director position, nor had it been approved by them.

Ward said he didn’t think of it as a new position because it was covered by savings from reducing the previous full-time athletic director’s position to half time. He said the assistant’s position is needed to help set up for sporting events.

He also said the board will take a look at whether or not the assistant position is needed for an entire school year at the end of school year 2011-12.

In other preparatory matters, Ward said the PowerSchool computer program will be available to parents of children attending all schools in the region this year. Power School allows parents to check on their child’s grades, attendance and other matters.

The student handbooks for each of the schools will also be online this year, Ward said.