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The Muskogee Board of Education at its regular meeting took the following actions:
• Heard public comments.
• Recognition of support staff members — Creek Elementary secretary Thea Speer and Wade Bennett of the district’s custodial department.
• Recognition of certified staff members — Cherokee Elementary special education teacher Tamara Kinsey and Muskogee High School history teacher Diane Walker.
• Recognition of Jimmie Johnson Foundation Grant recipients and speech and debate tournament winners.
• Board member Muriel Saunders praised MHS Teens for Christ members for serving at Golden Corral when she visited there. She said they are donating tips to the needy.
Approved all STANDING RESOLUTIONS
• Minutes of Nov. 13 and 26 meetings.
• Checks for November encumbrances and invoices: 20131595 to 20132134, $2,124,087.40; 1300088 to 1300099, $3,645.45; 1352884 to 1353803, $1,680,020.51.
• Schedule of Encumbrances - Numbered 21302474 to 21303020 - $530,011.21.
• Operating & Investment Funds: Nov. 1-30 — Operating Account $ - 147,157.39; Investment Account, $0.
• Financial Report.
• Purchasing Orders:
21302476 Knex Limited Partnership $3,519 Classroom Materials
21302482 Clark Oil $10,000 Gasoline
21302560 Catapult Learning $10,000 Staff Development
21302689 Office Connections $4,199.90 Projector Bulbs
21302735 Kathy Rigney $4,000 Gate Cash Basketball
21302749 Tech Depot $9,631.65 Printers MHS
21302750 Tech Depot $3,965.32 DVRs MHS
21302873 SHI $35,700 Software M/S
21302875 Follett Software $11,011.85 Software Destiny
21302892 Clark Oil $16,000 Diesel
21302933 Junior Achievement $28,975 Fee Character Ed
21302994 Condley Landscaping $8,500 Landscaping Walk
21303010 Clark Oil $16,000 Diesel
21303018 Misty Boyd, PHD $ 6,440 Pscyh Services
21303002 Blackwell Services $10,000 Mowing
21302502 Tankersley $14,896.08 Grocery
21302599 Tankersley $10,750.88 Grocery
21302662 Tankersley $5,438.33 Grocery
21302663 Tyler Technologies $4,700 Training W/H
21302695 Tankersley $12,628.82 Grocery
21302798 Tankersley $8,069.10 Grocery
21302992 Tankersley $15,910.01 Grocery
21302905 UMB Bank $14,162.50 '10 Bond Interest
21302906 UMB Bank $31,705 '08 Bond Interest
21302907 UMB Bank $17,556.25 '09 Bond Interest
21302908 UMB Bank $8,677.50 '10 Bond Interest
• Contract with Honeywell Building Solutions $35,232 for system maintenance.
• Surplus child nutrition services equipment.
EXECUTIVE SESSION
Upon return from executive session:
• $200 Christmas bonus for all staff members approved.
• New finance position of activity fund custodian/deputy treasurer approved.
• Accepted retirement of Tony Goetz Elementary music teacher John Lefler and Cherokee Elementary PE teacher Darnell Hale.
• Approved retirement of Darnell Hale as assistant MHS basketball coach.
• Approved temporary employment of Michelle Pitchford - Speech Pathologist Assistant - ECC; Melinda Chapman - Kindergarten - Pershing; Andrea Grisso - 3rd Grade - Pershing; Mark Colvin - 2nd Grade - Tony Goetz; Jessica VanVoast - Music - Tony Goetz; Paula Elsky - ACE Remediation English - MHS.
Tabled extra duty stipends for the following:
• All School Musical-Producer, Beverly Boyer, MHS, $1,100.
• Gifted and talented Annalea Stevenson, Grant Foreman, $1,334.
• Safety Patrol: Patricia Brewster, Harris-Jobe; Billie Monroe, Tony Goetz; $500 each.
• Title 1 Tutor: Joan Martin and Valerie Ragsdale, BFSA, and Marsha Newton, Pershing, $25 per hour.
• Baseball assistants: Tohrion Dillard and Aaron Hobbs, $3,000 each.
• Off Season: David Bandy, AR, $615.
• Slow-Pitch Softball: Coleman Hughes, $3,000; Slow-Pitch Assistant Darrell Wood, $3,000.
• Assistant Girls Tennis: Denise Webb, AR, $1,546.
• Girls Track: Erin Davis, $1,900.
• Approved Family Medical Leave, Support: Inez Lopez, Judy McDonald, Lindy Ford.
• Approved Non-completion of probation, support: Jim Farley, BFSA custodian.
• Approved employment, support: Tammy King, custodian, Creek; Sarah Walters, six-hour CNS associate, Tony Goetz; Michelle McCall, registrar, MHS; Shelly Sinnett, finance secretary, MHS; Kelly Robinson, bus driver.
• Approved temporary support employment of Sterling Spinks, school’s out assistant caregiver, Pershing.
• Approved family medical leave for Jamie Speligene, child nutrition services director.
• Approved employment of nutrition education coordinator Karah Lehman.
• Approved resignation of ECC assistant Delores Wright and Whittier custodian Doug Simmons.
