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WC School Board Approves Athletic Passes

The West Central School Board approved the creation and selling of Adult and Senior Citizen All Sport Athletic passes at their meeting on Wednesday, September 25. These passes will grant admission to the pass holder for all West Central High School and West Central Middle School home athletic events with the exception of tournaments and post-season events for one fiscal year. Adult passes will sell for $60 per person. Senior Citizen passes will sell for $50 per person. Staff members who retire from West Central School District will receive a Gold Pass upon retirement. This Gold Pass will include lifetime admittance to the above events with the same exceptions

The meeting was called to order at 5:30 p.m.in the WCES cafeteria by Board President Jodi Arnold. All board members were present at roll call as well as Student Representatives to the Board of Education Emijah Jones and Wesley Stewart. Also present were Superintendent Markey, WCHS Principal Jason Kirby, WCHS Assistant Principal Shane Tucker, WCMS Principal Joe Peters, WCES Principal Kathy Lafary, WCES Assistant Principal Andrea Freiden, Technology Director Melinda Frakes, School Psychologist and Special Education Director Shaila Ayer, Music Teacher Matt Stewart, and Community Member Beth Weber. The following new teachers were present to be introduced to the board: Ben Alexander, Keith Blair, Logan Brown, Gary Denhart, Melissa Fox, Rhonna Hand, and Jalynne Young. Some Academic Excellence Award recipients and their families were also in attendance.

The board conducted a Public Hearing on the FY20 District budget, where there were no comments offered by any member of the public on the FY20 District budget.

The board recessed their meeting at 5:32 p.m. and the board was introduced to all new certified staff by building principals. These staff members included Ben Alexander, Keith Blair, Logan Brown, Gary Denhart, Melissa Fox, Rhonna Hand, and Jalynne Young.

The board reconvened their meeting at 6:00 p.m. with President Arnold leading the audience in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Under Good News Items the following items were highlighted:

The board approved the meeting agenda with no additions or deletions.

Mrs. Nicole Hull addressed the board regarding the possibility of starting a Fishing Team.

Items approved under the Consent Agenda included:

In other business the board:

The board entered closed session at 7:15 p.m. to discuss the following subjects

A. The appointment, employment, compensation, discipline, performance, or dismissal of specific employees of the public body or legal counsel for the public body, including hearing testimony on a complaint lodged against an employee of the public body or against legal counsel for the public body to determine its validity.

B. Student discipline.

C. Collective negotiating matters between the school board and its employees or their representatives, or deliberations concerning salary schedules for one or more classes of employees.

D. The placement of individual students in special education programs and other matters relating to individual students.

The board exited closed session at 8:00 p.m.

The Board took the following action in regards to personnel:

The next regularly scheduled meeting will be Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. in the West Central Elementary cafeteria.

The board adjourned their meeting at 8:10 p.m.