LEBANON - Kim Masog and Tami Volz will join Mark Finch as administrators at Lebanon High School this fall.

Three members of the Lebanon School Board gathered for a special meeting Thursday before the regular meeting of the school district's budget committee to revisit the district's recommendation to hire the two. Vice Chairman Josh Wineteer made the motion to hire both and Chairwoman Sherrie Sprenger and board member Chris Fisher joined him in voting yes.

Masog currently teaches eighth grade at Hamilton Creek School and Volz is currently the college-to-school coordinator at Mid-Willamette Education Consortium at Chemeketa Community College in Salem. Each will oversee two of the high school's four academies, with Finch as head principal.

Fisher had made a motion at the board's regular meeting May 5 to hire the two, who were recommended by a screening committee made up of teachers, staff and parents. The motion failed for lack of a second, with board members Rick Alexander and Debi Shimmin both saying they preferred to wait on administrative hiring decisions until more budget information was available.

The lack of action generated a storm of criticism from people in the audience, an editorial in the Lebanon Express, and members of a political action committee known as Lebanon Citizens Alliance for a Responsible Education System, or CARES.

At Thursday's meeting, Wineteer said the delay had been misrepresented by the newspaper and the PAC and the intent was never to leave the positions open.

"We, or at least, I, wanted the budget committee to exercise their diligence," he said.