The Griswold School Board, Monday evening, voted to terminate the 2017-18 Human Resources Sharing Agreement. Superintendent Dave Henrichs said it was a cost saving measure. He said schools are allowed to receive funding through Operational Sharing, but there is a maximum of weighted [point value] positions allowed. Last year the district tried to reach enter into as many sharing agreements as possible to get the financial benefit of additional sharing dollars.

When they reached out to the other districts, they assumed not all the arrangements would be “do able,” but it turns out they were. As far as the sharing dollars are concerned, they were “Oversharing,” because funding is available for only 21 of the point values. The Griswold District was at 26, so it cost them money. The HR position was therefore eliminated, because it wasn’t “Financially beneficial” to the District. It also got the district total sharing down to the maximum of 21.

The Griswold School Board Monday voted to renew a Transportation Sharing Agreement with the Atlantic School District and Transportation Director Dave Eckles. In other business, the Griswold School Board discussed snow make-up days.

He says there were four snow days. One was made up April 17^th. Another will be made up May 25^th. The Board elected to forego using May 26^th as a make-up day, therefore that will be the last day of classes.

Students will be dismissed four-hours early on May 26^th, with staff remaining until 3-p.m. to wrap up end-of-year activities.