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Spooner Area School District board approves hires, donations and fundraisers
Summary
The Spooner Area School District board approved three hiring recommendations, accepted multiple monetary and in-kind donations (including an $11,000 gift and several local contributions toward summer programming), approved two athletic fundraising plans, and certified school safety drill evaluations as required by Wisconsin Act 143d. No actions were taken in closed session.
At its monthly meeting the Spooner Area School District board approved a slate of routine business items including personnel recommendations, donations, fundraising requests and certification of school safety drill evaluations.
The board approved three hiring recommendations presented together: Sam Smith for the junior varsity boys basketball coach position; Andrew Folad for district computer technician; and Denise Swan for student evaluation specialist. A motion to approve the three hires was made, seconded and carried; the transcript does not identify the motion's mover or seconder by name.
The board accepted multiple donations read into the record and approved them. Items recorded in the meeting transcript include an anonymous donation to Student Services (amount read), $11,000 from Ammon's Appliance to the backpack program, $1,333.33 from Spooner Bake Shop to the summer school program, and several donations (cash amounts from $40 to $200) earmarked to bring a visiting ventriloquist to summer school. In-kind contributions listed included hats, gloves, mittens, socks, underwear, and classroom supplies from local groups such as the American Legion, the Spooner Women's Club, Washburn County Health and Human Services, and Spooner Methodist Church; the transcript lists furniture for a school-based mental-health room totaling $360.
Two fundraising requests were approved: a 'pin pool' fundraiser for Spooner wrestling (anticipated to raise about $2,000 to support travel to state tournaments, uniforms and equipment) and a December 9 fundraiser for the boys basketball program (anticipated slightly over $1,000 for shirts, leagues and equipment). Meeting participants described the pin-pool model as one where family members pledge per pin and receive email updates on participants' progress.
The board also voted to certify written evaluations of school safety drills as required by Wisconsin Act 143d. The chair announced the board went into closed session earlier and returned to open session at 7:26 p.m. with no action taken in closed session. The meeting adjourned following the business items.
Where the transcript did not specify who made or seconded motions or provide roll-call tallies, the actions are reported as recorded in the public meeting audio/transcript.
