Board approves termination of bus driver Jeffrey Cunningham during probationary period

The school board voted to accept administration’s recommendation to terminate Jeffrey Cunningham, a bus driver who was serving a 90-day probationary period. A board member read the administration's recommendation that the employee be dismissed "in accordance with board policy," asked for a motion to accept the termination, and a motion was made and seconded; the board then conducted a roll-call vote and recorded unanimous yes votes from members present. The motion was seconded by Coburn and carried by recorded votes from Valletta, Coburn, Jeffries, Kullovic, Light, Ostermeyer and Murphy. The action was described by the chair as an administrative recommendation and treated as a formal personnel action; no additional details about the grounds for dismissal were stated on the record during the public session.