PERRYVILLE – The Perry County School District No. 32 Board of Education has released its latest board report for the meeting held Wednesday, February 14.
Refresher Training The board members that were present completed the annual MSBA board refresher course.
Open Session:
The board approved the consent agenda items which consisted of: The January 10, 2024 Regular Session minutes, the January 2024 warrants and the December 13th amended minutes. (Added the approved MSBA policies)
Student Board of Education Representative: Blake Bodendieck was absent.
The board approved the motion to go into closed session after the open session to discuss student and personnel matter as permitted by RSMo. 160.021 Sections (3), (6), (13) & (14).
Medical Insurance Renewal Rates 2024-2025. There are no changes to the rates from the previous year.
Revenue Budget Amendments – Dr. Jones noted that when making amendments to revenues, the board should consider increased budget accuracy, strategic opportunities and informed decision-making. The board approved Dr. Jones’s recommendation to amend the Prop C Revenue budget to reflect $2.8 million, the Classroom Trust Fund Revenue budget to $864,418, the Basic Formula Revenue budget to $4.3 million, the Cares-ESSER II Revenue budget to actual $68,783, the ARP-ESSER III Revenue budget to actual $12,005.28, and the Sale of Buildings and Trades House Revenue budget to actual $269,175 in the 2023-2024 school year budget.
Building level APR report – Each building principal presented a very informative report, outlining their building’s current attendance, Math and ELA strategies to reach building level growth projections.
Curriculum Report—Using NWEA Data to improve instruction. – Jane Narrow, Megan Roth and Rebecca Kemp presented various charts and graphs that demonstrated NWEA data and its application to instruction.
CSIP Revision Plan from the Regional Professional Development Center – Dr. James Welker, Ed.D., Director, Southeast Regional Professional Development Center attended the board meeting. Dr. Welker’s expertise in strategic planning to sustain continuous improvement in our school, is a welcomed addition, as PCSD 32 reviews and revise their current CSIP. In addition, MSIP6 stresses the need for districts to …adopt, monitor and annually review the implementation and outcomes of the CSIP that focuses on school performance and improvement.
Get the lead out school drinking water – Dan Oberkirsch updated the board on the current progress being made to the campus drinking water. Dan had informed them that 2nd water sampling has been completed and results are expected soon. Once the results are confirmed, we can begin the process of identifying the exact countermeasures needed.
2024-2026 Health Services Manual – The board approved the health manual as presented.
The board discussed the topic of video recording the open session. The board voted 4 to 3, to record the open session and archived for future viewing. The start date is unknown at this time.
Superintendent’s Report: – Dr. Jones presented the monthly financial and attendance report. Attendance reported by building. 1) High School = 82.94% 4) Elementary = 91.58% 2) Career Center = 94.25% 5) Primary = 88.70% 3) Middle School = 85.70%
Board Appreciation month is scheduled for March. The board members spend hours in keeping informed on current MSBA’s guidelines and recommendations. They attend various community and state wide events. They do continuous training throughout their 3 year term.
MSBA Regional EOP Work Session: Nancy Voelker, President of the board, informed the members of an upcoming 4 hour training course. In completing the course, school districts will be able to define the role of the school safety coordinator, explain how to form relationships with external agencies, build planning teams, describe the incident command systems in schools and demonstrate the fundamental process of EOP planning and development. Training Session is at no cost.
Closed Session: The board approved the following minutes: December 13, 2023 regular, December 18, 2024 closed, January 10, 2024 regular
Personnel Matters – The board approved to employ the following people for the 2024-2025 school year: 1) Administrators & Directors Craig Hayden Lacey Amschler Emily Koenig Leslie Ackermann Stacey Versemann Nicholas Cowell Lisa Martin Justin Dreyer Shadrick Shafer Daniel Hecht Stacey Seabaugh Jane Narrow Dan Querry Jonathan Tucker Debbie Baer Kate Martin Dan Oberkirsch Melanie Hager Sarah Orf
2) Safety Director / SRO position – Garrett Schott
3) Teacher – Haley Grass
4) Teacher – Kalli Seabaugh
5) Teacher – Madilynne Jones
6) Choral Music Instructor – Carly Green
7) Administrative Assistant II – Mary Roth
8) Assistant Cheerleading Coach – Lacey Strubberg
9) Custodian – Sarah Geringer
The board was informed of 2 lateral transfers for the 2024-2025 school year, they are:
1) Educational Diagnostician – Natalie Moldenhauer
2) MS P.E. Health ISS Weights teacher – Luke Ritter
The board was informed of the following retirements / resignations, they are:
1) Resigning effective July 1, 2024 – Michael-Ann Kellerman, as the M. S. Counselor.
2) Retiring effective June 30, 2024 – Barbara Lawrence, as the Elementary Secretary II
3) Resigning effective February 12, 2024 – Brandy Zoellner, as a Food Service I
The board discussed an employee matter and a student matter.
The closed session adjourned at 10:48 p.m.