Hermleigh ISD
The Hermleigh ISD school board will hold a special meeting Tuesday to discuss personnel.
Immediately after the meeting is called to order and a quorum is established, the board will go into closed session.
Following the closed session, the sole action item on the meeting’s agenda reads “Consideration of employment of personnel.”
School officials declined to confirm which positions the district will consider employing personnel to fill.
The board recently hired coaches already on staff to fill head coaching positions. Coach Heath Gibson was named head football coach, while Coach Sam Winters was named head basketball coach. Hermleigh’s principal, Amber Palmer, recently submitted her resignation, having accepted a position with another school district.
The school board will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Hermleigh ISD board room. The meeting is open to the public.
Cogdell Memorial Hospital
The Scurry County Hospital District board of directors will hear a presentation of the district’s 2019 audit when it meets Wednesday morning.
The board will also vote on credentialing new appointments and re-appointments to the hospital’s medical staff. New appointments include Nancy Chandler, MD of Lubbock Radiology; walk-in Imre Kocsis, DO; walk-in Indira Mikiel, MD; David Bass, MD of Direct Radiology; Peter Ruess, MD of Direct Radiology; and Michael Gouvion, MD of Lubbock Radiology. The sole re-appointment on the agenda is for Paul Manson, MD in the emergency department.
The board is expected to approve several new and updated documents, policies and forms, including a travel restriction policy for Cogdell Memorial Hospital staff; a COVID-19 visitation policy; and a staffing incentive in the form of a critical vacancy bonus for the hospital. The board will consider ratifying a grant resolution for the Sexaul Assault Nurse Examiner program.
The board will also hear several department updates.
The meeting will begin at 8 a.m. Wednesday in the hospital’s administrative board room and is open to the public.
Snyder ISD
The Snyder ISD school board will hold a special meeting Monday to consider approval of changes to the 2020-2021 school calendar, the purchase of 1,300 Chromebook computers, the hiring of a financial advisor for the school district and a bond issue.
All four items are listed on the consent agenda for the meeting, which indicates they will be all included in a single vote by the board. The calendar amendment would add six days of instruction to the school year, increasing instruction days from 174 to 180 while reducing the number of professional development days for the year from 13 to seven.
The calendar would still include a total of 187 days. The six days of instruction would be added in May, moving the last day of school from May 20 to May 28. The six days of professional development removed from the schedule would become holidays under the revised calendar.
According to the agenda, “Having 180 days of student instruction makes the district eligible for funding to provide an additional 30 days of 1/2-day instruction for K-5 students next summer.”
The new calendar will also include four “virtual” learning days in the revised calendar for Snyder High School and Snyder Junior High School students. On those days, students would have virtual assignments and teachers would work at their home campuses.
The 1,300 Chromebook computers will be used if COVID-19 rules for instruction in the fall require online learning.
The item limits the expenditure for the Chromebooks and the associated charging carts to $495,000.
“In order to be able to hand out enough Chromebooks for every student K-8, we need to purchase 1,300 Chromebooks. We will also purchase carts so they can be used at school if they are not issued.”
According to the third agenda item, the school board will consider hiring Government Capital Securities Corporation (GCSC) as a financial advisor. The agenda gives the reason for the hire as, “In order to refinance the existing debt at an estimated savings of approximately $120,000 per year the district will be required to have a financial advisor.”
GCSC is based in Southlake. According to the company’s website, it has completed financing programs for cities and towns, counties, hospital districts and other local governmental bodies as well as for school districts.
The final agenda item involves the “…issuance, sale and delivery of Snyder Independent School District unlimited tax refunding bonds, Series 2020.” The item would authorize Superintendent Dr. Eddie Bland to approve the amount, interest rates, price, redemption provisions and terms of the bonds.
The meeting, scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday, will be conducted remotely. To join the meeting, visit www.zoom.us and click “Join a Meeting.” Enter the meeting ID 939 0990 5361 and the password 6DUtzj.
Scurry County
Scurry County Commissioners will hold a special meeting Tuesday to consider re-implementing the countywide burn ban.
Commissioners lifted the burn ban Feb. 13, after the county experienced rainfall.
“We’ve been blessed with quite a bit of moisture,” Fire Department Chief Perry Westmoreland told commissioners at the time.
In other business, the commissioners plan to amend the county’s personnel policy.
The court will hold a public forum at the start of the meeting.
The meeting will begin at 10 a.m. Tuesday in the courtroom at the Scurry County Courthouse and is open to the public.