Kingfisher Board of Education members rehired a bulk of the district’s administrative staff for the next school year.

The board voted 4-0 Monday night to employ the principals at Gilmour, Kingfisher Upper Elementary, Kingfisher Junior High, Kingfisher High School and a dean of students for the junior high and high school.

The move was made during the April regular meeting.

Approved for the 2023-24 school year were Makylah Tollefson (Gilmour), Erin Michael (KUE), Stuart Purintun (KJH), John Harris (KHS) and Jared Reese (dean of students).

Voting for the move after the 51-minute executive session to discuss the administrator positions were Jim Perdue, Charles Walker, Carly Franks and Dana Golbek.

Terry Payne was absent from the meeting.

No move was made on Heritage Principal Shane Hood as he’s accepted the superintendent’s position at Aline-Cleo Public Schools.

His resignation was among three that the board received at the meeting.

Hood’s was joined by Yasmin De La Torre, a teacher assistant who worked at the district’s daycare, and Andrea Gutierrez Orozco, a custodian who also worked at the daycare.

Tollefson has been in her current role for just over a year, but is the longest-tenured among the principals in their current positions.

Purintun and Harris are completing their first full year.

Michael began the school year as the assistant principal at the high school, but made the move to KUE mid-school year.

Hood had been serving as principal at both KUE and Heritage, but Glover made the administrative shuffle.

That left a void at the high school, one that Reese filled as a dean of students.

The board approved hiring Stephen H. McDonald & Associates as finanical advisor to assist the district in obtaining lease-purchase financing “of equipment and other personal property.”

Glover told board members during the March 22 special meeting that he wanted to explore lease-purchase financing for the installation of artificial turf at the football/soccer field as well as the north softball field.

Once interest rates are received - and announced at a future meeting - Glover said the board will then have the option to move forward with the turf project.

Contracts with Teel Oswald as a school psychologist and Interquest Detection Canines to provide contraband inspection services were approved.

Both contracts were renewals. Oswald’s contract pays her $350 for each educational evaluation and $350 for each psychological/ social-emotional and autism evaluation or $525 for a combination of the two.

Interquest’s contract calls for four half-day visits during the school year at a rate of $265 per team.

In other action Monday, board members approved:

• The transfer capacity by site and grade, which is required multiple times a year by the state Department of Education;

• A transfer of fundraiser proceeds from Heritage PTO to Gilmour PTO and KUE PTO;

• An out-of-state trip for the academic bee team to Washington, D.C. in June;

• A board policy regarding disciplinary action for the misuse of school bathrooms and changing facilities.