Complex sentence: Beginning with the 2007-2008 school year, assistant band director Shawn Gurk was named the director of bands when Bill Bier took the band directing job at East Grand Rapids High School.
Split into simpler sentences: Beginning with the 2007-2008 school year, assistant band director Shawn Gurk was named sole band director. This came to be when Bill Bier took the band directing job at East Grand Rapids High School.