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USD 438 board accepts voluntary resignation, rescinds prior termination resolution
Summary
At a Jan. 3 special personnel session, the U.S.D. 438 Board of Education accepted the voluntary resignation of Melissa Jacobs effective immediately and rescinded the board's Dec. 20, 2024 resolution indicating intent to terminate her contract.
The Board of Education of U.S.D. 438 accepted the voluntary resignation of Melissa Jacobs, effective immediately, and rescinded a Dec. 20, 2024 resolution expressing the board’s intent to terminate her contract, the board reported after a special personnel session Friday.
The special session began at 5:45 p.m. and was called to discuss nonelected personnel matters. President Rex Robinson called the meeting to order; administrators listed as present included Superintendent Becca Flowers, high school Principal Steven Novotny, elementary-school Principal Diane House and Clerk Amy Swonger. The minutes note that there were no visitors.
Board member David McComb moved to approve the meeting agenda; Jerry DeWeese seconded the motion and the minutes state the motion carried. Later, Jerry DeWeese moved, with Nicole Curtis seconding, that the board go into executive session "for the purpose of discussing nonelected personnel" and that it would return to the open meeting at 5:50 p.m. The minutes record the stated reason for the executive session as protecting the privacy interests of an identifiable individual and the public interest, and they note that administrators were invited to attend.
The board returned to open session at 5:50 p.m., then voted to return to executive session until 5:55 p.m. After the second executive session, the board accepted the voluntary resignation of Melissa Jacobs and rescinded the board’s Dec. 20, 2024 resolution of intent to terminate her contract. Jerry DeWeese made the motion to accept the resignation and rescind the prior resolution; Allen Smith seconded, and the minutes record that the motion carried. The minutes do not record a roll-call tally for the vote, nor do they specify Jacobs’s position or provide further detail about the circumstances leading to the Dec. 20 resolution.
A motion to adjourn, moved by Nicole Curtis and seconded by Dustin Eubank, carried and the meeting adjourned at 5:57 p.m. The minutes do not list any public comments or other actions taken during the session.
