A lengthy agenda awaits the Kingfisher Board of Education Monday for its May regular meeting, one that includes an extensive list of personnel moves.

Included on the agenda are items to make nine new hires, eight of which are certified personnel.

The board will also vote on the “re-employment of certified personnel,” the “re-employment of certified administrators,” the “employment of certified personnel…on temporary contracts” and the “employment of summer work personnel.”

All are for the 2022-23 school year except the summer work, which is only during the summer months of 2022.

The language for the items concerning support personnel and extra-duty assignments differs from the rest.

It states “offer of reasonable assurance of employment to the support personnel” and “offer of reasonable assurance of extra-duty assignments” for 2022-23.

Such moves are generally made later in the calendar year, but have been placed on this agenda.

School districts are required to give “reasonable assurance of employment” to support personnel for the next year or initiate not rehiring that personnel, according to Title 70, Section 6-101.45A of Oklahoma statutes.

Specifically, it states: “A school district, no later than ten (10) days after the effective date of the education appropriation bill or June 1, whichever is later, shall give reasonable assurance of employment in writing to any support employee that the school intends to employ for the subsequent school year.”

Extra-curricular contracts (coaches, club sponsors, etc.) are comparable to support personnel contracts, said Kingfisher Superintendent Dr. Daniel Craig.

“Since we can only enter in continuing contracts with certified staff, we are required by law to give reasonable assurance to support employees that they will be rehired in the next fiscal year, which starts on July 1,” he said.

“And like support personnel contracts, extra-duty contract are not continuing contracts and should not be entered into prior to July 1.

“So, these agenda items offer some assurance of employment for the following school year for support staff and extra-duty assignments.”

Among the other hires on the agenda, which will come after a proposed executive session are a new junior high principal as well as a hire to fill the districtwide director for athletics and operations.

The principal job came open when Keith Campbell recently accepted the superintendent’s position at Balko. His resignation is expected to be accepted at this meeting.

Campbell is also the district’s transportation director, which should fall under the duties of the operations director.

The athletic director portion of that position was freed up when Jay Wood, also the KHS principal, was hired as Dover’s superintendent beginning next year.

John Harris was hired to be the new KHS principal at last month’s meeting.

Other positions set to be filled include a districtwide speech-language pathologist, a Gilmour Elementary teacher, two Heritage Elementary teachers, a middle school teacher, a Family and Consumer Science Education teacher at the high school and a high school custodian.

All of that will come after the board reorganizes to begin the meeting.

It’s customary for the vice president to be elected president and the board member entering their fourth year to be elected vice president.

If that holds, Jim Perdue will be elected president and Charles Walker the vice president.

The member most-recently elected is generally nominated as the clerk.

That will go to Dana Golbek, the current president who was re-elected in April.

The board will potentially vote on hiring a company to install a new roof system at the middle school, which has had a number of issues with leaks.

Board members last month heard a presentation on potential solutions for the roof.

The board will also vote on temporary appropriations for 2022-23. They’ll be prepared and presented by Britton, Kuykendall & Miller CPAs of Weatherford.

Several annual contracts are on the agenda as is re-assigning duties for the administration office staff.

That includes Dawn Tollefson as encumbrance clerk, deputy board minutes clerk and deputy treasurer of payroll; Pam Werner as treasurer, activity fund and child nutrition account custodian and board minutes clerk; and Amy Woods as payroll and insurance coordinator, deputy treasurer, deputy encumbrance clerk and deputy of the activity fund and child nutrition account custodian.

The meeting begins at 7 p.m. at the Kingfisher Administration Building.