Rich County School Board Meeting

Anita Weston, Reporter

Rich Civic Times 

RANDOLPH, UTAH-December 19, 2012.  At the beginning of the meeting there was a minute of silence out of respect to Newtown and the tragedy that had occurred there. 

As the Board was signing checks, Ralph Johnson indicated that he felt all employees should be paid monthly, not every two weeks.  That would save a tremendous amount of office time and save the District money.  This item was to be placed on next month’s agenda. 

Jaren Wadsworth was present at the meeting with his wife and three daughters.  He teaches math and science in the Rich Middle School and had not been able to get to any of the other Board Meetings.  He was introduced to the Board. 

The Travel Guidelines Policy was discussed.  There were some wording changes and the motion was made to adopt the travel reimbursement Policy.   

There was a request to home school which was approved.  

Rich County School District and one other district are invited to attend a dinner the first night at the EMI (school insurance company) meetings.  It will be held at Little America Steak House on January 10, 2013, at 5 p.m.  There will be time set aside for a question and answer session. 

Mr. Saby is the new School Board Member. He has already attended the new school board member workshop meetings and will be attending the school board meetings beginning in January.   

The Utah High School Athletic Association held a Public Hearing concerning changing the boundaries of what schools play each other.  Rich High School would like to keep the current way things are going but may have some other schools added to the division.  This would mean there would be play- offs in the division prior the state competition.  That adds additional travel and addition games where more school class time would be missed.  The discussion is still open and no final decisions have been made.

 

Four additional basketball games have been added to the middle school schedule.  Two are home games on Thursday nights.  The other two are away but close enough that the players will be able to travel after school to these locations. 

Tributes were paid to Blair Francis for all of his good work on the Board these past few years.  Everyone noted their appreciation for his efforts and wished him well with his future plans.