The Audubon School Board, Wednesday morning, approved their end of fiscal year expenditures, and an Elementary Classroom Project. Superintendent Eric Trager explains…

The Board he says also talked about personnel. As we’ve mentioned, Board member Joni Madsen has resigned to transition into High School English Teacher position within the District.

The appointment is for just a couple of months, until a Special Election in September. The other big news from the meeting concerns the addition of an Art Teacher. An individual was locked-in to the post a couple of weeks ago.

Eric Trager says they had a hard time getting someone for the position due to the state-wide teacher shortage that’s left many districts scrambling to get qualified candidates.

He says they’re curious whether the shortage of candidates is a matter of supply and demand, or what is driving the shortage issue. It’s something that needs to be addressed on a state-wide level going forward. In other business, Trager said a Special Election will be held in the District on Sept. 14^th, with two issues on the ballot. The first is a Revenue Purpose Statement (RPS).

He says “there is zero impact to our tax payers.” The second issue on the ballot is an election to fill a seat on the Board vacated by Joni Madsen. In other business, the Board received an update on the facilities project. Eric Trager said the have gone through and tried to eliminate inefficiencies without eliminating any parts of the project. After an extensive redesign/engineering process, the project will go out for bids in August, with the bid openings on Sept. 16^th.

He says they’re hopeful they’ll have a very competitive bid day and move forward from there.