The Newstead Town Board on Monday approved hiring a new senior center director to replace Theo Abraham, who is retiring this month.

Coming on board July 8 is Deborah Sabbatis, currently program events coordinator for the Clarence Senior Center. She was one of six applicants for the post interviewed by a five-member committee that included Supervisor David Cummings and Councilman Harold Finger.

Sabbatis, who also has worked for Meals on Wheels, will be paid $39,000 annually. Her hiring is subject to a background check and passing a civil service exam for the position when Erie County schedules the next test.

In other business the board:

Terminated the employment effective July 13 of Raymond W. Schrock, a laborer- motor equipment operator in the Highway Department, who has been off work since November 2007 due to injuries in a nonwork-related auto accident. A doctor, hired by the town, concluded after a medical exam that Schrock is “not physically able” to return to work without “substantial risk of injury” to himself and “substantial potential liability” to the town.

Approved installation of 3,500 feet of eight-inch water line on Scotland Road between Indian Falls and Bloomingdale roads and the issuance of $390,000 in serial bonds to pay for the work.

Set a hearing for 7:45 p. m. July 13 on razing a fire-damaged house at 13414 Main Road owned by Roy B. Walter.

Set a public hearing for 7:50 p. m. July 13 on a special-use permit and site plan for a day care center at 5149 Crittenden Road.

Heard Councilman Thomas George report that a four-hour workshop was held Monday for town and Akron village employees on plans for the new $3.5 million public works complex.

Adjourned with a moment of silence for Millard Young, a former Akron trustee, who died Sunday of industrial accident injuries.