JACKSON TWP — A tie for both president and vice president of the Seneca Valley School Board will be broken next week, according to the current vice president.

Anthony Evans, who has not attended the past three board meetings, said he will be present on Monday for the tie-breaking vote.

On Monday night, board members had their annual "thank you dinner" for district volunteers and others by the Seneca Valley administration. They then proceeded to the intermediate high school auditorium for the normally uneventful vote to elect a president and vice president for 2006.

But the board became locked in two stalemates when four board members, William Paul, Jeffrey Widdowson, Robert Hill and Dean Berkebile voted to retain Berkebile as president and the other four, Anthony Storti, Tom Roth, Paul Adametz and Kenneth Brennan, voted to make Brennan the president.

When the board discovered it had arrived at a stalemate, they decided to move onto the vote for vice president. The former four voted for Hill and the latter for Storti, creating another tie.

Because Pennsylvania school boards have nine members, there is no policy on breaking such a tie, said Seneca Valley solicitor Matthew Hoffman on Tuesday

He said the board recessed its meeting until 8 p.m. Monday for another vote.

Contacted on Tuesday, Evans said he will attend that meeting to cast the tie-breaking vote. He did not say whom he would vote.

The meeting will be in the intermediate high school auditorium.