Arkadelphia school board OKs more furniture; Thomas gets raise in new contract – Daily News in Arkadelphia, Arkansas

June 6, 2024
Goza Middle School in Arkadelphia, Arkansas.

The Arkadelphia Board of Education met Tuesday, June 4, 2024, for agenda planning in the upstairs conference room at Dawson Building #3, 700 Clinton St. All seven members of the school board were present.

At the recommendation of Superintendent Nikki Thomas, the board voted unanimously to approve the purchase of at Peake Elementary School. Federal funding will be used for the $39,934 purchase.

The board also OK’d the $54,277 purchase of 106 at the new Peake campus. The company installing the cameras is the TEXarkana-based KLC Video Security.

As fifth grade classes will be moved to Goza Middle School, the board gave its unanimous nod to buy at the campus. The $45,540 purchase came at Thomas’s recommendation.

Personnel report

Following a 40-minute executive session, the board reconvened in public and approved the following personnel recommendations:

Employment
Certified
Amanda Harris, instructional facilitator, Peake

Chelsea Serio, elementary teacher, Peake

Ranaya Ester, special ed resource teacher, Goza

Casey Braswell, secondary history teacher, AHS

Classified

Robert Cox, full-time bus driver

Whitney Ashley, secretary/bookkeeper, Goza

Michelle Brown, building secretary/bookkeeper, Peake

Resignation
Certified
Regan Morehead, middle school art teacher, Goza

Transfer
Kayla Todd, from special ed teacher at Goza to art teacher at Goza

Superintendent’s contract

Superintendent Nikki Thomas

Also following the executive session, the school board approved to raise Superintendent Nikki Thomas’s salary to $145,000.

An additional $10,000 increase is on the table, under the condition that Thomas complete her doctorate by the time the one-year contract is up for renegotiation. The contract begins July 1.

Thomas was hired in 2022 to lead the school district. Her original contract included an annual salary of $140,000.

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