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Leedey Board of Education approves 2025-26 temporary appropriations, contracts and personnel changes
Summary
At its May 14 meeting, the Leedey Board of Education unanimously approved the district's 2025'26 temporary appropriations, authorized warrants and purchase orders, approved membership in the OSSBA employment services program, authorized a student information contract with Sylogist, accepted a staff resignation and hired a teacher.
The Leedey Board of Education met May 14 and unanimously approved several routine but operationally important measures for the 2025-26 school year.
The board, called to order by James Smith, approved the minutes of the April 9, 2025 meeting on a motion by Landon Holcomb, seconded by Darrell Switzer. The body then voted to approve FY-25 general fund warrants numbered 898-1002 and a detailed list of purchase orders for the general, building and child nutrition funds as presented.
On a motion by Jason Paulsen, seconded by Darrell Switzer, the board approved the district's 2025-26 temporary appropriations, a procedural step that sets interim spending authority while the full budget is finalized. The motion passed with all five board members voting yes.
The board also voted, on a motion by Paulsen seconded by Switzer, to join the Oklahoma State School Boards Association Employment Services Program for 2025-26. Later, a motion by Darrell Switzer, seconded by Jason Paulsen, approved a contract with Sylogist for student information services for the coming school year; both motions carried unanimously.
On personnel matters, the board accepted the resignation of Tina Blackketter by motion of Jason Paulsen, seconded by Darrell Switzer. The minutes record acceptance of the resignation but do not specify Blackketter's position or last date of employment. The board then approved hiring Karlee Danielson as a teacher for 2025-26 on the same motion pattern (Paulsen moved; Switzer seconded).
The board approved an amended 2025-26 school calendar on a motion by Jason Paulsen, seconded by Landon Holcomb; the minutes do not include the calendar's specific changes. The meeting was adjourned at 7:44 p.m. on a motion by Paulsen, seconded by Holcomb.
All recorded motions carried on unanimous 5-0 votes (Darrell Switzer, Brady Smith, Landon Holcomb, Jason Paulsen and James Smith). The meeting minutes record agenda items for a teacher's report, a principal's report by Tate Beer and a superintendent's report by Darren Danielson but do not include substantive content of those reports in this transcript.
What happens next: the minutes do not list follow-up tasks or dates; routine implementation (final budget adoption and any written contracts or personnel documents) will proceed under the district's established administrative processes.
