After meeting in executive session for just over an hour, the Kingfisher Board of Education closed its most hectic meeting in years by finishing up some work it started a month ago.

Board members voted unanimously to approve the submitted review of Superintendent Jason Sternberger and roll his contract into another year.

Vice President Mike Copeland made the motion and it was seconded by Charles Walker. President Carly Franks, Dana Golbek and Jim Perdue also raised their hands in favor.

The move capped a nearly three-hour long meeting in which members were addressed by three separate members of the community (See story on Page 1), the district’s auditor, and the construction manager and architect for the new seventh and eighth grade center.

Including presenters and principals, more than two dozen guests were present at the meeting.

It took the board more than 90 minutes to work through a majority of that agenda before going into executive session around 8:35 p.m.

The board began Sternberger’s review at the January regular meeting, but voted then to continue it at this gathering.

This month’s executive session was held with Sternberger in the room with board members for portions of it and some without his presence.

Monday’s move essentially keeps Sternberger on a three-year contract that will begin again July 1, 2020.

The board also approved rehiring all of the district’s principals and directors after the executive session.

That includes Todd Overstreet, KHS principal; Keith Campbell, KMS principal; Shane Hood, Heritage principal; Cliff Benson, Gilmour principal; Jay Wood, KHS assistant principal and athletic director; Kristina Burnham, special education director; and Melissa Slezickey, KMS assistant principal and counselor.

James Kuykendall of Britton, Kuykendall and Miller, CPAs provided the board with the district’s 2018-19 financial audit.

“Overall, you’re in excellent financial shape and everybody is doing their job,” Kuykendall said.

Not long after Kuykendall exited the room, in came Van Storm of Joe D. Hall Construction, the firm that serves as the construction manager for the new school building, which includes the high school parking lot that will be constructed beginning soon.

Storm went over a couple of options regarding driveways into that parking lot from the south and northeast. Board members agreed to go with seven inches of concrete at those entrances/exits and then five inches of material for the rest of the parking lot, which is a change from previous specifications.

When Storm finished, it was Jason Hukill’s turn to address the board.

Hukill is an architect with LWPB Architecture out of Oklahoma City, the firm that’s designing the new building.

Hukill discussed a number of development plans both inside and outside the facility.

He talked about how several decisions were made on the project after numerous meetings with teachers, administrators and other staffers who will house the building once completed.

Prior to going into executive session, the board approved the hiring of two part-time nurses: Ashley Waeger and Libby Rother.

Sternberger said he’d be meeting with them both this week to finalize the hours they’d be available each week.

Also approved was the resignation of Amy Lorenz, a high school English teacher. It’s effective at the end of the school year.

Out-of-state trips to Texas for FFA were approved for March 28 in Lubbock, April 3 in Canyon and April 4 in Clarendon.

Fundraisers for track and field and the golf teams also passed through without objection.