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Spooner committee forwards hires, facility contracts and safety projects to regular board; approves personnel actions in closed session
Summary
The Committee of the Whole accepted a resignation, recommended three hires, agreed to forward a two‑year hockey‑rink agreement, approved moving a roughly $25,000 pole‑vault purchase and elementary fencing bids to the regular meeting, and later reported approval of individual salary requests after a closed session under state statute.
The Spooner Area School District Committee of the Whole advanced several staffing, procurement and facilities items and conducted a closed‑session personnel review.
Personnel: The committee accepted the resignation of custodian Owen Springer by motion and voice vote. The committee also approved recommendations to hire three candidates recommended by staff: a new kindergarten teacher (Dylan Turnup Seed), Leah Buckman as head girls golf coach, and Karen Skunover as an 11‑month elementary administrative assistant; the batch motion passed by voice vote.
Procurement and facilities: Staff recommended a two‑year renewal of the district's ice‑rink agreement with SEHA, with a first‑year cost of $17,000 and a $1,000 increase in year two to $18,000; the committee consented to forward that renewal to the regular board meeting for final approval. The committee also approved sending to the regular meeting a recommendation to purchase a pole‑vault pit system from Richie Athletics (staff characterized the cost as "just under $25,000") and to award two elementary fencing projects (4K area and third/fourth‑grade playground) to HS Fence Company LLC based on competitive bids (the two line items were discussed as 12,846 plus 4,279 in the meeting discussion). Roll‑call votes were used for the larger procurement items.
Closed session and salary approvals: The committee convened in closed session citing Wisconsin statute 19.85(1)(c) to consider employment and compensation matters. After returning to open session, the committee reported that individual salary requests discussed in closed session were approved.
Next steps: Multiple items will appear on the regular board meeting agenda for final approval; hiring actions and the resignation were approved at the committee level and will be reflected in regular meeting actions.
