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UPDATE: Board meeting to consider Amis's contract cancelled
by Cris Ritchie
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A meeting of the Perry County Board of Education set for Wednesday to consider terminating Superintendent John Paul Amis's contract was cancelled. (photo by Bailey Richards)
A meeting of the Perry County Board of Education set for Wednesday to consider terminating Superintendent John Paul Amis's contract was cancelled. (photo by Bailey Richards)
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HAZARD — A planned meeting of the Perry County Board of Education for Wednesday to consider whether or not to terminate Superintendent John Paul Amis’s contract has been cancelled, but is expected to be rescheduled. The original notice and agenda for the meeting were released to the Herald Monday morning, with Supt. Amis’s contract being the only business item listed. Amis was hired by the board in the 1990s, and last year was named Superintendent of the Year by the Kentucky School Board Association. His current contract runs through 2016. The agenda noted that the board would consider the issue pursuant to Kentucky Revised Statute 160.350(3), which states that the board must have at least a four vote majority to terminate the contract, along with approval by the Kentucky Commissioner of Education. But according to a notice of cancellation released to the Herald early Tuesday evening, the meeting was cancelled for unspecified reasons. No date for a reschedule has been announced, though Board Chairman John C. Combs did say the meeting would be held at a later date. “I am waiting to hear from an attorney, he is supposed to be calling me back,” Combs said on Tuesday. “There is a technicality, but everything should be worked back out and we will have another meeting scheduled.” Combs on Monday declined to talk in detail or list what specific issues brought the need for a meeting to consider Amis's contract, adding that he would wait to discuss it with the rest of the board. Superintendent Amis was not in his office Monday morning, and did not return a call seeking comment.
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MrMountain
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September 12, 2012
Between the laptop pornography fiasco,

running off a perfectly good basketball coach only because every Amis kid on the team couldn't start,

the ACT cheating scandal that has made us the laughing stock of the whole state, and the arrogant nature of this clown -

He would have been fired five years ago in any other school system in the state!

His only saving grace has been Pumpkin Combs, who I'm sure will find a way to either save Amis job or transfer him to a cushy administrative one in the system.

We have a power monger in teh school system who seems to be calling all the shots on everything -

and they call him "Pumpkin".

Doesn't that tell you all you need to know right there? He is so self promoting, he had the Perry Central Gym named after him. Tell me just what basketball team did "Pumpkin" ever lead to the state tournament?

The place should be renamed "Miner's Memorial Gym", since they are the ones that paid to have the place built.

Now everybody calls it the "Pumpkin Patch"

What a bunch of selfish morons we have running the Perry County School Board. It makes it embarrassing to be from Perry County Central when our kids go to college.
Michellepaul
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September 10, 2012
It's about time they got rid of him. Now they need to get rid of John Pumpkin!!!
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