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Board approves personnel hires, wrestling trip and related-party contract; consent agenda amended
Summary
At its meeting the Gravette School District board approved multiple personnel actions, an out-of-state wrestling trip and a disclosure-based contract with a vendor tied to a board member; the board also amended the consent agenda to set a makeup date for a student event.
The Gravette School District Board approved several action items during the meeting, including personnel changes, an overnight athletics trip and a contract involving a disclosed related party.
Actions approved at the meeting included: the resignation of a staff member (recorded in the minutes as “Cadmus once,” effective December 2024); hiring a part-time occupational therapist, Bree West, to work the remainder of the 2024–25 school year on a 190-day contract at 30 hours per week (salary text in the packet listed “44 to 50” with no precise dollar figure recorded in the transcript); approval for the Granite High School overnight wrestling trip to the Texas Outlaw Wrestling Tournament, January 2–5, 2025, with an estimated cost noted in documents as approximately $4,000 to be covered by activity funds and transportation charges for bus and driver; and approval of the contract between Gravette School District and Matt Croxtel with a related-party disclosure noted.
The board also amended the consent agenda by removing student item 12(b) from immediate approval and setting a replacement date for that student item; the revised date was discussed in the meeting as January 7 for that student-related item.
Board motions were made and seconded for the listed items and carried by voice vote. The transcript records the board calling for “all those in favor, say aye” and individual “aye” responses; no roll-call vote tallies by member name were recorded in the available transcript.
Items added to the agenda and personnel recommendations were first discussed during an executive session under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act before the public motions, as permitted under state law for personnel matters.
The board did not provide detailed line-item budgets for every approved item during the meeting; questions about cost estimates for the wrestling trip were asked and the board was told the activity funds would cover most costs and transportation expenses would be charged to the district transportation account.
