The Atlantic School District’s Board of Education met Wednesday evening at the High School. During their session, Board member Alison Bruckner announced she would not be running for re-election to another 4-year term on the Board. Her current term expires this year. Bruckner said she’s enjoyed her past four-years, but she started working on obtaining her Doctorate of Education last year, which, along with her full-time job, takes up a great deal of her time. Earlier this summer, another Board Member, Dr. Keith Swanson announced he too, would not be running for re-election. It’s unclear whether School Board Member Jenny Williams will run for her seat on the Board. Swanson and Williams’ terms are up this year, also.

In other business, the Board approved a recommendation from Superintendent Steve Barber, to hire Bob Sweeney as Athletic Facilities Project Liaison between the district, contractors and sub-contractors, effective Sept. 26th, the date construction bids are to be opened. Sweeney will be paid $22.50 per hour or an estimated $20,000 for the duration of the project construction.

Superintendent Barber said a pre-bid conference meeting was held Tuesday with FRK Architects, two General Contractors (GC’s) and three Sub-Contractors, two of whom were local. In all three GC’s have taken physical documents and diagrams out for review, as well as other In- State and Out-of-State organizations. Some documents may also have been requested digitally.  The documents and diagrams lay-out the terms and project schematics for interested contractors, which enables them to better draw-up their bids for the Three-Phase Athletic Facilities Projects.

Board Secretary/District Finance Director Sarah Sheeder reported during the meeting, Wednesday, that the District is running close on their General Fund Line-Item Budget of $16.995-million, but she and Superintendent Barber are confident they can keep a tight reign on that part of the budget so they don’t hit $17-million.

Superintendent Barber said the District’s Official Enrollment Count begins Oct. 1st. He said their most recet review of the students the District is serving, shows a small decline in both the Certified Enrollment and number of Open enrolled-in students, with the ratio to open enrolled vs. Out a small increase. Those numbers are subject to change. He said also, and the other Administrators agreed, that the new student pick-up and drop-off system for Schuler and Washington Elementary students has been going very smooth, and their have been few complaints since the new driveway and parking lot were constructed this summer.