The Christian County School Board approved the superintendent’s yearly evaluation at Thursday’s meeting and approved revisions to the District-Wide Childcare Services Handbook.
The board rated Superintendent Mary Ann Gemmill either as ‘exemplary’ or ‘accomplished’ in all seven standards of evaluation, and rated her exemplary overall. Board chair Linda Keller read a board comment on the evalution, saying the district has consistently had funding cut by the state since 2008 and Gemmill has found ways to save money and make existing dollars stretch.
Gemmill says much of the credit for the positive evaluation goes to her team in the Administrative Office, and they will continue to improve in the areas that need it.
The board approved revisions to the District-Wide Childcare Services Handbook, most which were clerical in nature, but one change is that they will look to provide children in aftercare with full meals instead of snacks and bring back all day-care during school breaks. Child Care District-Wide Coordinator Tracey Shifflet says with that however, comes an increase in fees—after school daycare would go from $45 weekly to $55 weekly—and when full day-care returns it would be $100 weekly.
In other action, Chief Operations Officer Brad Hawkins presented the board with an updated parent emergency guide, which explains what the policies and procedures are for different types of emergencies. Copies of the guide can be picked up during registration, orientations and when school comes back into session.