Maryville BOE

The Maryville R-II School Board approved multiple capital improvement projects during its regular meeting May 17.

For the upcoming 2017-18 school year, the technical school trades and building class will not be building a house. Instead, the students will be building a new Maryville School Administration District Office. The office will face the circle drive that leads to the high school.

It was approved to purchase six pole lights for the high school baseball field from Pinnacle Electric Inc., St. Joseph, for $140,385.

ACME Floor Co., Lenexa, KS, will be refinishing the middle school gym floors and repairing soft spots for $15,959.

The board voted to purchase a phone and intercom system from Allegiant Technology, Kansas City. The system will include a one-time capital purchase of $36,027 as well as a monthly fee of $3,646. The phones will use the internet and a cloud storage system and will host several features including voicemail for all staff and the ability for the superintendent to page every room of every building at the same time.

The school board accepted the bid from Bob Severson, S&S Properties, for $126,606 for the purchase of the house built by the technical school students during the past school year.

It was voted to notify ACES that for the 2018-19 school year Maryville will withdraw from the program and will no longer act as the fiscal agent. Instead, staff hopes to start an alternative school and house it in the current district office, allowing the school administration and school board to  have more control over the programs at the alternative school.

Blue Cross Blue Shield donated $2,000 to the school to fund wellness activities.

It was approved to let LJ Hart and Company, St. Louis, refund the $5,250,000 Series 2015 Bonds, dropping the interest rate by two percent, saving the district money.

Extra sound panels from the PAC construction were installed in Eugene Field’s cafeteria to reduce noise.

The board adopted an operation manual for the FEMA structure and allocated various duties to each administrator.

Lunch and breakfast prices will be raised 10¢ for the next school year.

The following personnel items were approved during closed session:

Resignations were accepted from Michelle Young, preschool before and after school program lead; Amanda Dye, middle school para; and Susan Law, middle school special education.

The following individuals were approved for summer school: Shirley Barnett, kindergarten; Nathan Powell, high school; Jacqui Conn, high school; Beth Mires, grant worker; Gina Felzke, second grade; Kallyn Carl, first grade; Randi Nielson, first grade; Kendra O’Riley, speech/language pathologist; Laureen Graves, part-time high school; JoAnna Baker, part-time high school; and Hannah Erspamer, part-time elementary.

The following were also approved: Lori Tally, 21st Century Grant coordinator; Kylie Mattke, high school auxiliary sponsor; Hannah Erspamer, high school volleyball assistant coach; Sarah Brought, high school volleyball assistant coach; Marcus Grudzinski, middle school basketball boys assistant coach and middle school girls basketball head coach; Cindy Naber, ACES director; Alisha Degase, middle school special education; and Kameron Schieffer and Trevor Brown, both seasonal maintenance.

The following personnel items were approved during a special meeting May 1:

Resignations were accepted from Nate Rice, middle school assistant football coach, and Monica Woods, technology specialist.

The following individuals were approved for hire: Alisha Degase, summer school special education; Angie McKim, summer school paraprofessional; Dustin Piper, 21st Century site director; Nita Poppa, ACES office manager; Marissa Felt, high school volleyball head coach; Sara Medsker, middle school girls basketball head coach; Jamie Thieman, middle school summer strength coach; Miranda Henggeler, elementary special education; and Amy Skidmore, elementary part-time speech implementer.

The following individuals were approved as youth development workers for summer school: Kaitlin Adams, Macy Elwood, Keston Oltman, Allie Shields, Mollee Welter, Gannon Albrecht, Callie Mattson, Madison Prismantas, Delaney Steeby, Clarissa Thompson, Breanna Dennis, Bridget Murkle, Amanda Rupert and Carmen Subbert.