Hays USD 489 personnel transactions
Personnel transactions approved at Monday's meeting of the Board of Education for Hays USD 489 were:
Retirements
Carol Shepherd, principal, Roosevelt Elementary, effective end of 2007-08 school year; Leon Wolf, district bus driver, Aug. 1.
Resignations
Carol Dreiling, part-time secretary, Roosevelt Elementary, end of 2007-08 school year; Kyle Ferguson, para educator, O'Loughlin Elementary, May 22; Kevin Malone, para educator, end of school year; Patricia Newell, assistant cook, Lincoln Elementary, end of school year; Cynthia Stremel, secretary/lunch accounts, Felten Middle, end of school year; Cindy Walters, assistant cook, Roosevelt Elementary, after a one-year absence that ended April 27.
Work agreement discontinued
Tim Hertel, bus driver, May 4.
Work agreement increases
Melanie Folkerts, language arts teacher, Hays High, increase from .80 to full-time status for 2008-09; Nina McNeal, special education behavioral consultant, to full-time special education teacher for 2008-09; Patti Park, teacher, Roosevelt Elementary, increase FTE to 1.0 for 2008-09; Kathleen Vahling, .60 FTE special education early childhood community based teacher, to .80 FTE for 2008-09.
Leave
Desirae Kinderknecht, math teacher, Hays High, maternity leave from Aug. 21 through Sept. 5.
Transfers
Nicole Cook, special education teacher, from Westside School to Kennedy Middle; Carla Emerson, special education teacher, from Felten Middle and Kennedy Middle to Westside School.
Employment
Darrell Blosser, part-time bus driver; Sarah Bohm, language arts teacher, Kennedy Middle; Todd Bryant, operational technology coordinator, USD 489; Brooke Diamond, assistant volleyball, assistant girls' basketball coaches; Nathan Mark, orchestra; Elizabeth Nelson, temporary summer custodian; Pei-Pei Lu, after school tutor, Washington Elementary; April Reed, .60 FTE English teacher, Hays High; Samantha Vanek, teacher, Hays Head Start; Andrea Wichers, speech-language pathologist.
Renewal of director contracts
Sandra Bainter, accounting/board clerk; Shiela Brening, nutrition services; Gavon Smith, transportation services.
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