Frewsburg Athletic Director Terry Gray speaks to the Frewsburg School Board Thursday. P-J photo by Michael Zabrodsky

FREWSBURG – Frewsburg Central School District will again share its transportation supervisor and its head bus driver.

The school board approved Thursday the agreements with Jamestown School District and Southwestern Central School District for the 2024-2025 school year. In the previous school year, all three districts approved similar pacts.

Jamestown approved the measures Tuesday, while SWCS is expected to approve the agreements at its next board meeting today.

John Spacht is the transportation supervisor while the head bus driver is Roger Bingham Jr.

The transportation supervisor agreement calls for the supervisor to work 40% for Southwestern, 40% for JPS, and 20% for Frewsburg. The head bus driver agreement calls for the driver to work 80% for JPS, 10% for Southwestern, and 10% for Frewsburg. The length of the contract is retroactive from July 1 through June 30, 2025.

“I am very happy to have the opportunity to work with Southwestern and Jamestown. …It’s going well,” Superintendent Dr. Danielle Cook said.

Cook also noted that the district has had a smooth start to the year.

“We are at full swing, but things have gone really smoothly, and that’s truly a testament to our staff,” Cook added.

In other business:

– The board heard from Athletic Director Terry Gray about the district receiving a NYSPHSAA Sportsman Promotion Program Award for 2023-2024.

Gray said the award is a reflection of the character building process that goes on throughout the district. Gray, the former head football coach, added that all coaches in the district have to include character building within their teams. The award is presented to schools which have developed proactive approaches in keeping sportsmanship in the forefront with their students, coaches, spectators, and communities, Gray said.

The athletic director added that he uses the game of football to teach students about the game of life.

“If we didn’t teach them (student athletes) anything more than blocking and tackling, (then) we didn’t do our job. Someday they won’t be able to play these sports. Something that we taught them, we hope would stay with them,” Gray noted.

Cook added that she likes how Gray utilized sports to provide Frewsburg students with additional social and emotional learning.

“It’s very much an honor,” Cook said.