GEORGETOWN — Changes occurred Monday among those guiding the Georgetown-Ridge Farm schools, and more changes will likely be coming soon.

School board members reassigned the high-school principal to one of the elementary schools, and one board member resigned, effective immediately. School officials are beginning the search for a new superintendent, and said they may name a new high school principal as early as Monday.

The Georgetown-Ridge Farm school district developed two open administrative positions on June 30.

Superintendent Greg Irwin resigned, after spending more than a month on administrative leave while the board investigated charges that he allegedly used district equipment, gasoline and employee labor for his person use. Under the terms of a resignation agreement accepted by the board at a dismissal hearing on June 30, Irwin stepped down immediately, but admitted no wrongdoing.

Ridge Farm Elementary Principal and Assistant Superintendent Andy Weathers, who had served as acting superintendent during Irwin's administrative leave, retired on June 30.

Earlier this month, the board hired Kevin Tate to serve as interim superintendent for up to 100 days. Tate retired from the district on June 30, 2009, after spending 27 years with the district, the last 14.5 of them as superintendent.

On Monday, board members reassigned Steve Sliva to become principal of Ridge Farm Elementary.

Sliva spent 20 years in the Georgetown-Ridge Farm district teaching science at the 6th, 7th and 8th-grade levels before becoming assistant principal at Georgetown-Ridge Farm High School in 1995. He has served as principal there for the past eight years.

Board president Cheryl Kestufskie said the board would seek applicants for the high-school principal position from within the district, and would meet at 6 p.m. on Monday to review in-district applicants. The board could hire a principal then, she said, or could decide to seek out-of-district applicants.

Jack Morrison, a former board president with almost 14 years of experience on the school board, tendered his resignation from the board by letter, effective immediately. Kestufskie would not discuss any reasons for his decision.

"I appreciate all his hard work, and hate that the board is losing all that experience," she said.

In other business, the board authorized borrowing up to $300,000 from the working cash fund and up to $150,000 from the operations and maintenance fund in order to meet payroll expenses in the education fund.

The board will discuss increasing lunch prices for the upcoming school year in August, after learning that the district's suppliers for bread and milk products have increased their prices.

The board approved reinstating the freshman football program at Georgetown-Ridge Farm High after a two-year hiatus. Tate said there were so few freshmen trying out for the teams those years that they were just incorporated into the junior-varsity teams, but that numbers are up and that it is better for freshmen to play against other freshmen.