While most of the 50-plus people in attendance at last Monday’s Kingfisher Board of Education meeting were there to hear the board’s decision on a settlement offer, several other moves were made during the regular May meeting.

Among them was rehiring certified staff members for the 2023-24 school year as well as approving several annual contracts and the annual temporary appropriations.

The appropriations are for 2023-24 and are prepared by the school district’s auditor Britton, Kuykendall & Miller.

They are required for any warrants the board expects to issue the next fiscal year prior to the approval of an estimate of needs.

Approved Monday were appropriations of just over $18.3 million in the general fund, $2.25 million in the building fund, $550,800 in the child nutrition fund and $448,248 in the cooperative fund.

After approval, the district has to file the application for the appropriations with the Kingfisher County Excise Board.

Among the annual contracts approved were: • Moore Therapy Service for occupational therapy services. Rates are $65 per hour during the school year and $70 per hour in the summer months plus one-way mileage. The district will also pay $125 per evaluation, $60 per re-evaluation and $30 per annual benchmark;

• Interbank to implement IntraFi Network LLC for placing deposits;

• Oklahoma State School Boards Association for annual membership for 202324 at a cost of $3,454;

• Horizon: Digitally Enhanced Campus for online content and professional development;

• Quality Choice Testing LLC for drug and alcohol testing.

Among the personnel moves were making appointments for different duties of administration office staff.Approved were:

• Dawn Tollefson - encumbrance clerk, deputy board minutes clerk and deputy treasurer;

• Pam Werner - treasurer, activity fund and child nutrition account custodian and board minutes clerk;

• Heather Mercer - Payroll and insurance coordinator, deputy personnel and deputy encumbrance clerk;

• Suzanne Bomhoff - human resources/personnel, deputy payroll and deputy activity fund and child nutrition account custodian.

Board members Charles Walker, Carly Franks, Dana Golbek, Terry Payne and Brad Wittrock met in executive session for just over 100 minutes.

Upon returning, members voted to have the district’s legal counsel to inform all necessary parties of the board’s decision regarding the lawsuit against the district (see story in the May 3 edition).

Board members also approved two lists of personnel for the next school year, career teachers and those still on temporary contracts (those who have not yet been with the district for four years).

Certified personnel approved were: Stephanie Bieren, Bridget Birdwell, Misty Blundell, Stan Blundell, Rhonda Bromlow, Kara Brueggen, Nicole Buck, Kristina Burnham, Chris Combs, Suzanne Crow, Micah Daugherty, Cortney Deterding, Katelyn Dissinger, Tammy Duncan, David Ellis, Janie Erwin, Stephanie Farrell, Morgan Finley, Lili Giles, Tyler Gradert, Jarren Graham, Teresa Greco, Melanie Green, Laurie Hagar, Stephanie Harper, TJ Harris, Becky Hart, Jill Haub, Whitney Hauser, Makylah Henton, Dakota Horn, Mandy Horn, Rachel Ince, Samantha Ingram, Kurt Kaya, Coni Kitchens, Lara Kostka, Lacey Kuehn, Melody Kuehn, Mallori Kusik, Kerri Lafferty, Jenny Laudwig, Paula Leffingwell, Meggan Lunsford, Diann Magnus and Carla Marshall.

Also, Amanda Matthews, Kara Mueggenborg, Lainey Mueggenborg, Megan Mueggenborg, Micah Mueggenborg, Jeff Myers, Jill Myers, Sabrina Nault, Mandy Owens, Derek Patterson, Amy Pearson, Janet Pennington, Aniessa Perez Edsall, Carina Ponce, Carma Reagan, Laci Redwine, Lesley Redwine, Mark Redwine, Sheila Redwine, Lindsay Reese, Libby Rother, Teneille Rother, Melinda Rowan, Kris Schaefer, Leah Seely, Michele Simon, Melissa Slezickey, Audra Smalley, Steffanie Stephenson, Tracy Stephenson, Jackie Sternberger, Michelle Stone, Kenneth Thompson, Ashley Waeger, Liz Walter, Rebecca Whiteman, Terry Willis, Heather Wittrock, Libby Wood, Kaytlyn Woods and Nakomis Young.

Certified staff on temporary contracts were: Barbara Baker, Amy Barnett, Tracy Baustert, Dan Bivins, Dylan Blundell, Jordan Booth, Katherine Buckner, Leslie Click, Carol Cravens, Riley Dacus, Davin DeVilbiss, Jacob Farrell, Morgan Fialkowski, Melissa Hardison, Janet Hood, Kevin Hopkins, Doug Jech, Maria Jimenez, A.J. Johnson, Nicole Kippenberger, Matthew Loch, Jannason Long, Stacy McDowell, Lana Miller, Kinsey Mueggenborg, Morgan Shuman, Esther Stephenson, Kayla Voth, Isaac Waltman, Jordan Waltman, Steven Wilson, Timmy Winans, Emma Wood, Shasta Yost, Jeremy Young and Taylor Young.

Multiple new hires were also approved.

They included Morgan Dutton as a high school science teacher as well as the new high school softball coach (see story in May 3 edition).

Alexis Rowan was approved as the junior high softball coach and high school assistant, but informed the district after the meeting that she’d accepted another offer.

Dover native Jan (Schilde) Swart was hired as a KHS science teacher as well. Swart is currently the principal at Aline-Cleo High School.

Hired to teach sixth grade math was Sierra Harney.

The resignations of Jared Reese, Lindsay Reese and Danny Green were announced, but don’t require board approval. It was previously reported that trio will be a part of the Dover School staff next year.