Roosevelt Middle School’s library will soon carry the name of the longtime school librarian.
USD 445 Board of Education members on Monday agreed with a recommendation from RMS principal Alice Morris to name the library in honor of Betty Gregory, the RMS librarian who died April at the age of 60.
Morris noted that Gregory was only two years away from completing her 40th year of service to Coffeyville schools — a place where she served as a librarian in each of the school district’s schools. She had served as librarian at Roosevelt for the past 13 years.
In other business transacted at Monday’s school board meeting, the school board:
• accepted 10 resignations of district staff, including Chris Lowe, Community Elementary School assistant principal; Madelene Moore; Community Elementary teacher assistant; Doug Stanley, FKHS head softball coach; Mandie Schaper, Community Elementary teacher assistant; Michelle Splechter, Community Elementary teacher assistant; Rachel Wymore, district migrant liaison; Virginia Miller, Field Kindley CTE coordinator; Nikki Kirk, FKHS theatre sponsor; Jeremy Kirk, FKHS band instructor; and Tim Heflin, RMS assistant track coach.
• approved the following hirings: Rejeanne Gilkey, Community Elementary assistant principal; Katrina Gulick, Community Elementary teacher; Steve Long, Community Elementary custodian; Olivia Gysel, FKHS assistant cheerleading coach; and Jana Tracy, FKHS head cheereleading coach.
• approved various changes of verbiage to student handbooks for the 2011-12 school year and set meal prices for the 2011-12 school year. The lunch prices, which increased by 10 cents, will be $1.80 for elementary school; $1.95 for middle-high school; and $2.95 for adults.
All other prices, including breakfast fees, will remain unchanged.
• heard year-end reports from the FKHS, RMS and Community Elementary School site councils.
• approved a bid of $28.822.80 from 4-State Maintenance Supply for carpeting of six classrooms at Roosevelt Middle School.