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Thanks to an assist from the school district, the Berryville Bobcat Athletic Booster Club’s LED sign on Highway 62 will soon be replaced.
At its recent monthly meeting the Berryville School Board voted to spend $27,869 on a new sign. An agreement is in place that the booster club will reimburse the district for the cost over five years, superintendent Owen Powell said.
“It’s been out for several months,” Powell said. “We had a conversation, and obviously the booster club doesn’t have $28,000 in the bank. So, an agreement was made that the school would purchase the new LED board and they’ll reimburse the school over five years.”
The sign has been on Highway 62 for more than 20 years, Powell estimated.
“It probably outlasted its life,” he said.
Also at the meeting, the board approved spending $28,624 for fuel and increasing the pay for Saturday School staff from $20 to $25.
The board also heard an update on the district’s use of the Arkansas AWARE grant, a grant funded through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, aimed “to support districts in efforts to provide mental health awareness and trauma informed practices,” according to the Arkansas Department of Education website.
“It’s going really well,” Powell said. “It’s the first year of implementation of that and the big thing is that they’re working really hard to get an intervention team at each school. We want to see which students are struggling and try to help them.”
Powell also reported to the board a district enrollment of 1,808.
“Which is right at where we were last year,” he said.
In personnel action, the board approved the resignations of librarian Bree Adams and paraprofessional Micaela Romero and approved the hires of Jordan Geren as a Bobcat Academy teacher and Lori Currie to the district’s accounts payable/ bookkeeper position.
“Lori came very highly recommended with 24 years of experience in educational bookkeeping,” Powell said. “We’re very fortunate now. Most of the time when you lose someone in the business department it’s hard to find someone in the finance field with educational experience.”
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