WOODSFIELD — Two Switzerland of Ohio School District principals have resigned this summer — Darren Cook of Beallsville High School and Thaddeus Fields of Monroe Central High School — and the search is on to replace them.

At the district’s regular board of education meeting on Tuesday, officials discussed possible candidates during a lengthy executive session, but took no action on hiring. The district will be interviewing additional candidates on Monday.

In addition, Superintendent Jeffrey Greenley asked the board to consider hiring another mechanic to maintain the district’s many buses. The district has two bus garages and employs two full-time mechanics, plus one mechanic’s helper temporarily for the summer.

“As it exists, we store almost 20 buses at one location, and have one mechanic that staffs that. Just as a safety thing we would really like another person out there,” Greenley said. “We do think it would be wise to add that position.”

Assistant Superintendent Rob Caldwell said he contacted both garages about the matter and they said they would be able to share the third person, wherever he or she would be most needed day by day. The board agreed there is enough work in the district to employ a third commercial driver’s license-qualified mechanic and the district will officially post the position.

The board also approved the purchase of four brand-new Thomas Body buses at a cost of $345,760 on Tuesday. Greenley noted the purchase was already budgeted.

“The idea 10 years ago was if we purchased four new buses a year, we would eventually have all new buses,” said board member Ed Carleton.

The board also discussed and approved several revisions in board policies. Notable is that the board decided to shift sports team code of conduct rules “from the policy side to the guideline side,” which would give the superintendent power to write the code, allowing for updates to happen much easier.

“Things just happen so fast these days,” said board President Denise Riley.

Board member Ken Darby said he believes the district needs to include a social media policy in its code of conduct guidelines, and said he has gotten ideas from what other districts have been doing.

“They are addressing social media and goals, their vision, and dos and don’ts for the parents and the players,” Darby said. “I’m trying to custom fit it to the whole district and then present it to the administration and then back to the board. Then maybe disseminate it to each one of the coaches and let them customize it, have customizable pieces in there for their goals, for each sport, each school. … I liked (their idea) because it addressed social media — you can’t get online and disparage coaches, or have coaches getting online and disparaging parents. That creates bad situations.”

The board agreed the code of conduct should be updated. Caldwell added that “a lot of coaches” in the district already have social media conduct policies, and believes it is important to address the subject.