Several hires and one resignation were among the agenda items facing Henryeetta school board members Monday night.
The board accepted the resignation of Rick Enis who has been serving as school federal programs administrator. In his resignation letter Ends pointed out he has been with Henryetta schools for 43 years serving as a teacher, coach and administrator. “It’s been an amazing ride,” he said.
Following a 15 minute executive session, the board hired Mike Hardgrave as transportation director, Roger Williams elementary principal, Leslie Jones, assistant elementary principal, Jayme Matlock, middle school principal, Lorrie Henry, high school and middle school library aide, Tammie Fairres as business manager and assistant treasurer, Cynthia Layman activity clerk, Bertha McGowan clerical and payroll, Tammy Smith encumbrances clerk, Harold Fox maintenance director and Sallie Hedrick as child nutrition director. Christie Johnson was hired as a six-hour cook for the remainder of the school year and Claudia Pollard hired for the rest of the school year as elementary paraprofessional.
No announcement was made to fill the high school principal’s position.
The board adopted the calendar for the 2022-23 school year. That will see students going to class Aug. 11. The final school day will be May 23.
This year plans call for graduation to be held May 22 at 2 p.m. The decision to move ceremonies to a Sunday was made in order to give students and family members a chance to travel. “This allows some of our students to make it to graduation if they are involved in state tournaments,” superintendent Dwayne Noble said. Graduation will be held at the football field as long as weather permits.
The school approved the student transfer policy to bring it up to date with recent legislation. That allows students to transfer up to twice a year as long as they meet the discipline and truancy requirements. “We will look at the class capacity quarterly and see how many students we can accept,” said elementary assistant principal Leslie Jones.
She pointed out that the goal is to have 20 students in each class. That means if there are more than 20 a particular grade, the school may not allow a student to transfer.
The superintendent pointed out the school received over $82,000 from a special Redbud grant earlier this year. He said half the schools in the state received some kind of funding through those grants.