Summer means vacation and light workloads for everyone, including the Oxford Community School board.
The regular board meeting on July 27 was cancelled, and a July 28 meeting was called to discuss the schools upcoming bond election.
‘We didn’t have a lot on the agenda,? said Superintendent Dr. Bill Skilling. He also noted a few members were on vacation.
The items scheduled for the July 27 meeting will be added to the agenda for the next meeting, August 10. At that time, the board will designate a board member for the Legislative Committee.
Items waiting to be approved are the Oxford Drama Club field trip in December, revisions to the Code of Conduct, June 2009 bills and the Loan Revolving Annual Loan/Repayment Application.
An agenda item coming for the last meeting in August is the school bond to be approved by the board and put on the November ballot.
Skilling and Timothy Loock, assistant superintendent of business and operations, took the proposed school bond to the state treasury for a prequalification meeting.
The treasury went through the bond application line-by-line to make sure everything was in order.
‘They had a few tweaks and changes were small,? said Loock.
The board met last Tuesday and approved the application to be sent back to the treasury for the next step.
Loock said the treasury has 30 days to review before the bond is in front of the board again for their meeting on August 24. He added the board will also approve the wording of the bond for the ballot.
The bond includes two proposals. The first is for $32.7 million in building upgrades.
The second proposal is for synthetic turf at the high school athletic field and to build a storage building by the field for $635,000.
After wording is approved by the school board and state, it will be taken to the county clerk’s office to be put on this November 3’s ballot.