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Board approves nurse contract, multiple hires and ELL service agreement for 2026–27
Summary
The Hill City board approved a two-year nurse contract, hired a K–6 teacher, approved a purchased-services ELL arrangement with Northland, and increased kitchen staff hours — with one abstention over a conflict recorded on food-service-related hour increases.
The Hill City Public School District board approved several staffing and service items for the 2026–27 school year at the May 18 meeting.
The board approved the school nurse contract for 2026–27 (motion by Joell Miranda, seconded by Jeremy Nelson) and hired Kurt Kunnari as a 1.0 FTE K–6 elementary teacher under the HCUE contract (motion by Joell Miranda, seconded by Haley Wentz). The minutes record these motions as passing with the vote tally read by the clerk as "Yea: 5, Nay: 0, Absent: 1."
The board approved a Purchase of Services agreement with Northland for provision of an ELL teacher for the 2026–27 school year. The agreement text in the record describes the arrangement as Hill City employing a licensed ELL teacher who will provide services to Northland; Northland will reimburse Hill City for the proportional cost of the teacher. The agreement includes an estimated cost for Northland of $26,116.20 for the 2026–27 year (for 0.33 FTE of the Hill City ELL teacher).
The board also approved increases to food-service staffing hours beginning 2026–27: increasing the assistant cook from 6.5 hours to 7.5 hours per day and increasing the dishwasher position from 5 hours to 6 hours per day. Joell Miranda is recorded as abstaining "with conflict" on both hour-increase motions; otherwise the motions passed by recorded vote.
No additional terms or public discussion were recorded in the minutes beyond the motions, the associated mover/second and the recorded tallies.
