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Show Low school board approves personnel moves, contracts and new dispatcher role
Summary
At its November meeting the Show Low School District board approved multiple routine and substantive items including classified and certified personnel actions, the creation of a full-time dispatcher position, contracted services for virtual occupational therapy and PowerSchool support, library purchases and several grants and donations.
The Show Low School District Board of Education approved a slate of personnel actions, vendor contracts and budget uses at its November regular meeting.
Board members voted, by voice, to approve the agenda and October minutes before taking up routine business including financial reports, personnel hires and transfers. Miss Davis reported M&O spending rose about 3 percent for the month and noted the food service program moved into the black for the quarter, with an $8,900 surplus.
The board approved classified and certified personnel actions, including a motion to ratify hires and transfers presented by Dr. Farnsworth. "We are recommending that you approve these transfers and resignations as listed," Dr. Farnsworth said prior to the vote. The board also approved athletics personnel and retroactive approval of football volunteers after staff identified paperwork gaps.
One substantive staffing change: the board approved creating a full-time dispatcher position. Dr. Farnsworth said the current combined bus driver/dispatcher job requires drivers to be pulled from dispatch duties when drivers are needed, and separating the roles would keep dispatch functions staffed. The board agreed the new dispatcher will be posted to allow open competition and that funding will come from the M&O budget.
On contracting and services, the board approved a virtual occupational-therapy vendor after staff reported repeated unsuccessful efforts to recruit an in-person provider. "Despite repeated recruitment efforts, we've been unable to secure an in person provider," Dr. Farnsworth said when presenting the recommendation. The board also approved a not-to-exceed $2,250 contract for PowerSchool consulting to help resolve attendance and coding issues for state reporting.
Other fiscal and instructional approvals included purchase of recommended high-school library books that had been on public display, renewal and expansion of a Khan Academy subscription (funded by a $50,000 direct student services grant) to cover third through seventh grades, and acceptance of numerous community donations ranging from robotics funding to hygiene-kits for McKinney-Vento students.
Votes were handled as standard motions with movers and seconders recorded at the meeting; where roll-call votes were not recorded in the minutes, board approval was announced by voice. The meeting adjourned with no public comments and the next regular meeting scheduled for December.
