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Platteville board approves hires, counseling agreements, building security film and vehicle leasing
Summary
At its July meeting the Platteville School Board approved consent items and a slate of staff hires, authorized inter-agency counseling agreements, approved a reading-curriculum purchase, voted to install security film at main entrances, and authorized a two-vehicle leasing pilot for district transport.
The Platteville School Board approved routine consent items and several action items at its meeting, including personnel hires, inter-agency counseling agreements, a curriculum purchase and two facility and operations upgrades.
On personnel the board accepted the resignation of Elizabeth Mohler, high school math teacher and assistant forensics coach, and approved hires recommended by administration: Vicky Peterson (high school math), Robert Bendorf (8th-grade special education), Jay Geeson (8th-grade social studies), Amy McCul (kindergarten special education/interventionist) and Kendall Foley (3rd-grade teacher). The board noted two remaining open positions (a fifth-grade classroom teacher and an 8th-grade English language arts opening) and heard that candidates will be interviewed for those roles.
The board approved inter-agency agreements to bring counseling services into district schools from providers listed in the meeting materials (transcript reads Driis Area Behavioral Services, CWM Counseling, Empowerment Counseling and Southwest Counseling Agency) to increase in-school access to counseling for students and families.
Curriculum and facility votes: the board approved an ARC reading-curriculum proposal to add classroom sets for anticipated larger third-grade cohorts. It also approved a "Safe Haven" quote to apply security film to main entrances; administration said the film is not bulletproof but is intended to prevent cascading window failures and buy response time. The board approved a pilot vehicle-leasing program with vendor Ewald to lease two passenger vans (vendor will convert 13-passenger vans to certified 10-passenger configurations and provide maintenance under a lease plan).
Votes were recorded in the meeting as carried (the transcript records the board's voice vote as "all those in favor say I"); specific individual tallies were not read into the record for each motion. The meeting adjourned at 8:21 p.m.
