The Jamesport Tri-County R-7 School District Board of Education will hold a special meeting Thursday evening. The meeting will be held in the superintendent’s office at 6 o’clock. The agenda includes health insurance and ancillary benefits, summer projects, purchase service contracts, approval of remaining bills for the fiscal year, transfer of funds, and approval of […]
Princeton R-5 Board of Education will hold an end of the fiscal year meeting Thursday at 5:30. The agenda involves action to zero out the activity balances, amend the current budget to reflect actual revenues and expenditures for the year, a projected end of the fiscal year balance as of Friday and approval of the […]
A special Board of Education meeting for this area comes up Thursday night at the Laredo R-7 school with the public session beginning at 6 o’clock. The board will be approving amendments to the current school year budget; will zero out the teacher’s fund if needed, and transfer funds to cover expenditures of the building […]
Grundy R-5 board of education meets in special session Thursday evening. The agenda for a 5:30 meeting includes amending the current budget to reflect actual expenditures and revenues; discussion and approval of the new fiscal year budget; as well as furnace bids. The Grundy R-5 Board also may meet in executive session Thursday evening regarding […]
A special meeting of the Pleasant View R-6 Board of Education is to be held Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 in the R-6 school cafeteria. The agenda includes the oath of office to an appointed board member; a transfer of funds; amending the current budget; adoption of a new budget; as well as a report on […]
The Trenton R-9 Board of Education will hold a special board meeting next week. The meeting will be at the district office the morning of June 30th at 10 o’clock. The agenda includes approval of end of the year bills, actualization of revenues and expenditures, the 2017-2018 budget, the July meeting, and a tax rate […]
The Spickard R-2 Board of Education voted to put a tax levy increase on the April ballot at its meeting Monday evening. The board also decided all staff would pay a portion of their insurance. Budget amendments, the 2017-2018 budget, and calendar revisions were approved. The board held an executive session to discuss personnel and […]
The Laredo R-7 School District Board of Education accepted bids for milk, propane, and fuel at its meeting Monday evening. The board accepted the bid for milk from Prairie Farms, the bid for propane from MFA Propane, and the bid for diesel fuel from MFA. The board approved the Voluntary Student Accident Insurance through Nationwide […]
The Pleasant View R-6 School Board approved an increase in student lunch prices as well as the purchase of computers at its meeting Tuesday night. The prices of lunches will increase by 10 cents with the cost of lunch for students to be $2.35. The board approved the purchase of four teacher computers as well […]
The Princeton R-5 Board of Education approved a bond resolution at its meeting Monday evening. The resolution establishes a final terms committee for the sale of the general obligation bond issue. The committee members are Board President Rick Ellsworth, District Superintendent Jerry Girdner, and President and CEO of L. J. Hart and Company Larry J. […]
The Newtown-Harris R-3 School District Board of Education approved amendments to the 2016-2017 budget as well as the 2017-2018 budget at its meeting Monday evening. The board approved the purchase of a 2002 Freightliner as a backup bus from Durham Bus Services for $1,500. It also approved paying $862.89 for its portion of the breaker […]
The Trenton R-9 Board of Education accepted bids for fuel and milk and approved selling the property at its meeting Tuesday evening. The board accepted the bid for diesel fuel for buses from MFA Oil as well as the bid for dairy products from Central Dairy and Prairie Farms. It approved to sell the property […]
The North Mercer R-3 School District Board of Education adopted the 2017-2018 budget and approved 2016-2017 budget amendments at its meeting last Monday evening. Revenues for 2017-2018 are projected at $2,563,342 with expenditures projected at $2,802,740. There is a projected net loss of $239,398. The budget includes buying two buses and lease purchasing three buses […]
Lunch prices will increase for the coming academic year in the Grundy R-5 school district. At a board of education meeting Thursday evening, members approved a ten-cent increase in the cost of student and adult lunches for the 2017-18 school year. The lunches at the elementary school in Humphreys will cost $2.30. Lunch prices at […]
The Princeton R-5 Board of Education approved a mass excavation bid at a facility work session last week. The board accepted the bid from BRS of Edina for $493,006.75, with BRS providing a 60-day timeline for completion of the project. The excavation package also included storm pipe and drainage for the entire campus. The project […]
The Princeton R-5 Board of Education discussed the mass excavation bids it received at a meeting Tuesday afternoon. It received and opened six bids at a public meeting earlier Tuesday. It will meet with the architectural firm Ellison and Auxier to review the three lowest bids to check references and estimated start and completion dates. […]
The Trenton R-9 Board of Education accepted a resignation and several hires in its special board meeting Tuesday morning. The board accepted the resignation of special education instructor Brenda Baker. Hires include Paige Orndorff and Tiffany Luetticke as special education teachers as well as Kim Suttenfield for special education secretary. Additional summer school hires include […]
The Laredo R-7 School Board approved keeping the Title 1 Program at a special meeting last Thursday evening. The program will be kept through next school year. The board also approved offering a contract to Micah Burkeybile for the Title 1 teaching position for next school year.
The Newtown-Harris R-3 School Board approved a contract for propane at its latest meeting. The contract with MFA Oil of Milan is for next school year. The board also approved two teaching contracts for next school year. Those are for Nate Hopkins for seventh through 12th-grade social studies and Dakota Ioanis for seventh through 12th-grade […]
The Grundy County R-5 School District Board of Education approved increases in salaries at its meeting Tuesday evening. Non-certified and superintendent’s salaries will increase by one percent. The base teacher salary was raised $200 for all certified teachers with the base salary for a beginning teacher with no experience to be $29,200. The board will […]
