The Indiana School Board will have the rest of the school year to find a superintendent to replace retiring Superintendent Dale Kirsch.
At last night’s meeting, the board accepted Kirsch’s retirement with deep regret and reluctance. Kirsch has been a part of the Indiana School District for the last 10 years, starting as the business manager and being promoted to Superintendent in June of 2012. Kirsch talked about what he felt were his two greatest accomplishments in his career. One was guiding the district through the PSERS funding crisis, and the other was improving the technology infrastructure in the district to make the district a leader in educational technology use.
Kirsch’s last day with the district will be August 31st of 2018.
In other business:
- the board approved making the bid documents for the Ben Franklin Elementary School available for public inspection. But with the sheer size of the documents, which range from thick books to large rolls of blueprints, the board and the public want to see them in a digital format to make things easier to access. Board president Doug Steve said they will explore options to put the documents on a cloud drive or a usb drive, but as of now, the documents are available for inspection.
- The board approved sending discussion on air quality testing at all six school buildings to the buildings and grounds committee, in the hopes that they can get some information on costs and services for the testing. The motion comes on the heels of the board hearing of mold at Ben Franklin elementary school, which has already been cleaned up.
