Bus agreement to come before Mitchell Board of Education - The Daily Republic

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The Mitchell Board of Education will examine renewing its bus transportation services agreement at its next meeting.

The meeting will be held in a live format Monday at 5 p.m. at the Mitchell Career & Technical Education Academy Commons after several months of virtual meetings due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Joe Graves, superintendent for the Mitchell School District, said in the agenda notes that the current 5-year contract with Foreman Sales & Service will expire at the end of the 2021-22 school year, and representatives with the company have approached the district about renewing the contract for another five years.

“They desire to do so because they have plans for improving their bus garage and offices on Norway and don’t want to make that investment if they will no longer be offering transportation services in Mitchell after June 30, 2022,” Graves said.

Graves noted several points for the board to consider. Among those points was that transportation services may be bid out, but school districts are not required to do so; however, the Mitchell School District has generally done so in the past.

Graves said the district has been well-served under the current contract with Foreman, with buses running on time and having a very low rate of equipment failure, and the buses themselves are quite new. He said Foreman personnel have been easy to work with.

Rates for the 2022-23 school year under the new contract would be $3.30 per mile on regular routes, $3.20 per mile for yellow activity, $58.71 per field trip, $3.36 per mile charter and $12.69 drive down time (over four hours). The contract also lists $2.60 per gallon in fuel cost as the benchmark.

Personnel

Also at the meeting, the board is expected to consider the following personnel moves:

• The new certified hire of Morgan Taft, 8th ELA teacher at Mitchell Middle School, $44,750, effective 2021-22 school year.

• The resignations of Becky Anderson, teacher at Rosedale, effective at the end of the 2020-21 school year; Angie Goldhammer, paraeducator at colony schools, effective May 24, 2021; and Maggie Ireland, food service at Mitchell Career & Technical Education Academy, effective May 21, 2021.

Other business

The board is also expected to take up the following agenda items:

• Consider approval of a K-14 copier request for proposal for 2021-22 through 2025-26.

• Consider review and revision of K-12 board policies 700-900 on second reading.

• Consider review and revision of Mitchell Technical College policies 700-900, 113 and 518 on second reading.

• Consider approval to renew motion and participant agreement with the Associated School Boards of South Dakota for the Worker’s Compensation Fund for the 2021-22 school year.

• Consider adoption of renewal motion and participation agreement with the Associated School Boards of South Dakota for Protective Trust South Dakota School District Benefits Fund for the 2021-22 school year.

• Declaring surplus property.

• Hear board member reports.

• Hear the superintendent report.

• Hear public commentary.

The meeting is open to the public.

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