Altamont School Board Looking for New Member

Altamont school board members Monday accepted the resignation of Alan Shumaker as a board member. 

The Board will be posting a vacancy announcement.

Board members learned during an audit report that the Altamont district maintained "recognition" status, which is the highest level that a district can achieve. Altamont's overall profile score was 3.7 on a scale of 4.0.

The Board approved the purchase of a 2017 motel 71-passenger bus for $54,900, and discussed the proposed tax levy for the coming fiscal year, appointed Kerry Wolff as the Board's delegate to the state school board convention and agreed to reimburse meal and accommodation expenses for members that wish to attend the convention, and voted to seek bids to update the District's student electronic devices. 

Board members approved a Family and Medical Leave Act leave for an employee, discussed but did not act on an intergovernmental agreement with the City of St. Elmo, approved hiring Destiny Wimberley as a paraprofessional, accepted the resignation of Sadie Bueker as 7th grade girls basketball coach, approved volunteer JoAnna Schultz to help with the junior high and high school girls basketball programs, approved Johanna Hooks as girls track coach, accepted the resignation of Logan Hill as an Industrial Arts teacher at the end of the school year, hired Tessa Philpot as a high school English teacher beginning in January, and approved a FFA Convention proposal.