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Board honors longtime staff members and approves new hires, including returning speech pathologist

3510680 · May 19, 2025
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Summary

At the May 19 meeting the board recognized retirees—Cindy (Cynthia) Curtis, Viviana Sarver, Kathleen Wachowski and others—and approved the general consent agenda that included retirements and the hiring of Laurie Reinstad as a speech-language pathologist.

The board honored multiple retirees and adopted the general consent agenda, which included personnel transactions and the ratification of recent retirements and hires.

Nut graf: The board read resolutions recognizing staff who are retiring after long service to the district and approved a consent agenda that included hiring Laurie Reinstad as a speech-language pathologist; several trustees expressed appreciation for the retirees' service.

The meeting recognized the long service of Cynthia ("Cindy") Curtis, a health aide and longtime Ojibwe Elementary staff member whose role expanded over time to meet student medical and social-emotional needs; principal Leo Kanjoka (spoke at the ceremony) described Curtis as a "daytime mom" for students. The board also recognized Viviana (listed in resolution as Viviana) Sarver, a Cheyenne teacher retiring after more than three decades of service; Kathleen Wachowski (resolution name) was also honored for decades of service. The board read a combined resolution listing additional retirees: Patricia Messenger, Margaret Simpson and Thomas Mollett.

Laurie Reinstad was introduced and welcomed as a returning speech-language pathologist with 27 years of prior experience in local districts; she said she was "very happy and very grateful for the opportunity to come back to Chippewa Valley." The consent agenda containing these personnel items passed at the meeting; the board also set aside framed resolutions and retirement bells for the honorees.

Trustees, principals and the superintendent thanked retirees for their service, and several speakers noted retirees' classroom and school-community legacies. The retirements and the hiring were included in the general consent agenda approved by the board at the meeting.