Pleasant View Board of Education approves resignations and field trips for students

The Pleasant View R-6 Board of Education approved several resignations during an executive session on March 9^th.  The resignations are effective at the end of this school year for Art Teacher Phoebe Duff and Fifth Grade Teacher Melanie Warren. Custodian Meghan McLain’s resignation was effective immediately.

The board voted to hire Whitney Barlow of Trenton as a new custodian. Her duties will begin on March 17^th.

During the regular meeting, Grundy County’s Hazard Mitigation Resolution was approved. This was needed for Pleasant View R-6 to be eligible for any Federal Emergency Management Agency or State Emergency Management Agency funds in the future.

Field trip requests were approved. Those included the first and second grades to Mozingo Lake of Maryville May 7^th, the eighth grade to Branson May 2^nd, 3^rd, and 4^th, and the sixth through eighth grades to Hannibal with no date yet set.

The board approved a coop with Laredo R-7 for the seventh and eighth-grade track. Each school will provide a coach. All meet fees will be split between the schools.

There was an update on building projects. Dustman Digging completed trenching, and Tom Trump is adding more drainage around the school building. Bids for the roof of the third, fourth, and fifth-grade rooms are to be put out soon.

Superintendent Rebecca Steinhoff reported no staff or students were out due to COVID-19.

Upcoming activities were announced. They included the preschool/kindergarten round-up in the Pleasant View library March 12^th, the sixth through eighth-grade science fair March 18^th, an early out March 19^th and the Book Fair Lunch with a Loved One March 25^th for KEYS and March 26^th for Mrs. Lake’s preschool through eighth grade. There will also be an early out April 1^st, no school April 2^nd through 5^th for Easter Break, and a blood drive hosted by the seventh grade on April 8^th.

The Pleasant View Spring Program will be held differently this year. There will be two performances. One will be April 29^th at 1 o’clock in the afternoon, and another will be April 30^th at 7 o’clock at night. Mrs. Lake’s preschool will only perform on April 29^th.