Board approves consent items, copier contract, school-choice resolution, personnel actions and school-name changes
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Summary
At its January meeting the Siloam Springs School District Board approved the consent agenda, a five-year copier contract with CopyWorld, the annual school-choice capacity resolution, multiple personnel resignations and hires, emergency sick-leave requests, and the renaming of two middle schools to ‘Siloam Springs Middle School North’ and ‘South.’
The Siloam Springs School District Board approved a series of routine and personnel actions during its January meeting.
The board approved the consent agenda, which included the Dec. 18 regular meeting minutes, the Jan. 8 special meeting minutes, personnel transfers and changes, student transfers, and the district’s recommendation to uphold three administrative-review committee decisions related to student disciplinary hearings. A motion to approve the consent agenda was made, seconded and the board voted in favor.
On procurement, the board approved a five-year copier services contract with CopyWorld. Administration reviewed five vendor responses and recommended CopyWorld despite it being marginally higher than the lowest bid because the vendor provides a dedicated local technician and fast service response. The board moved, seconded and approved the contract.
The board also approved the district's required annual school-choice capacity resolution. Administration explained how neighborhood-school changes will be handled under the law, including time-stamping school-choice applications and the 15-day response window for decisions.
Personnel actions approved included acceptance of resignations (Jessica Mecham, Southside STEAM teacher; Travis Moreland, assistant principal at Siloam Springs Middle School) and the planned retirement of Sammy Cunningham (middle-school GT/STEAM teacher). The board officially approved the hire of Marshall Hahn as head football coach. Emergency sick-leave requests meeting policy were also approved.
Finally, as part of the neighborhood-schools transition the board approved renaming the current middle school to 'Siloam Springs Middle School South' and the intermediate school to 'Siloam Springs Middle School North' so the district can update scheduling and course-selection systems.
Votes at a glance: consent agenda — motion carried; copier contract — motion carried; school-choice capacity resolution — motion carried; personnel resignations/hires — motions carried; middle-school naming — motion carried. No roll-call tallies with individual member votes were recorded in the public transcript; the meeting used voice votes.