School board holds post-election reorganization

New members sworn in, officers elected

GORDON WOODS
Posted 4/26/17

School board holds post-election reorganization

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School board holds post-election reorganization

New members sworn in, officers elected

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CLINTON — The Clinton Unit 15 School Board held its post-election reorganization on Tuesday as part of its regularly scheduled meeting.

Superintendent of schools Curt Nettles administered the oath to three newly-elected board members, Chris Hammer, Dan Matthews and Cole Ritter.  The board also elected new board officers.

Members elected Mike Walker new board president, Rodney Rogers, vice president, and Dan Matthews, secretary.  School district business manager Lynn Westfall was appointed treasurer.  Board committees will be formed later.

Additional business

The board approved a new four-year lease with Apple for the district’s iPads.

“As I explained to you in some updates, a four-year lease gives us the opportunity to budget for these things a little bit better,” Nettles told board members.  

Nettles said the lease also would make it possible for the district to more easily afford the technology updates.

“We’re looking to, obviously, upgrade,” Nettles said.  “We want our technology updated, but then we want to do some minimal purchases and cycling so we can continually budget for this annually.”

The four-year lease is at a 1 percent interest rate.  The lease and ability to cycle out older iPads also eliminates a large outlay of cash by the district in order to replace tablets.

The board approved loaning the district’s tort fund $300,000 from the working cash fund.  Incoming tax receipts this summer will be used to pay back the loan.  The loan was necessary to prevent the tort fund from going into the negative before the end of the fiscal year, Nettles said.