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Tyler Howle
The Lingleville ISD School Board was updated on the construction of the new cafeteria/classroom building and the annual audit during its regular meeting Thursday night.
The meeting began with the swearing-in of new board member Tyler Howle.
LISD Superintendent Curt Haley said he and crews had walked the interior of the new building recently and found that construction was approximately 80 percent complete.
Haley reported that the kitchen was between 90-95% complete on sheetrock.
“If you know what you’re looking at, you would say it’s looking good,” Haley offered.
The project has had some delays as they had to wait for air handling on some sections and dirt to dry following the recent snows.
“We’re still pushing hard to finish by the end of April or first of May,” he said.
This end date will allow the school to move into the new building during the summer and have it ready for use by the start of the fall semester.
The audit revealed that even though the previous year had been challenging, LISd was able to add $51,000 to the general fund balance, increase its assets through construction and slightly decrease expenditures ($3.4 million to $3.3 million).
The audit also revealed that the school had collected 95.3% of taxes for the calendar year and 99% of what was still owed from the previous year.
During the payment of bills, it was remarked that there was an item for the Run Group, a training program which had aided Lingleville in preparing longdistance runners for competition.
In regular report, it was revealed that enrollment was 272 with a 96% attendance rate. Lingleville also recently opened their school up to incoming transfers for the current school year so long as a few criteria were met. (For more information, call 968-2596.)
The board also approved a sick leave policy that would provide sick leave to any staff member who has to go into quarantine due to COVID and hasn’t yet collected sick leave for that purpose.
Such sick leave was previously covered by the federal government, but hasn’t been re-approved.