February 21, 2018
By: Dwayne Page
The DeKalb County Board of Education may consider a contract extension for Director of Schools Patrick Cripps when it meets again next month.
Cripps’ contract currently runs through June 30, 2019. He has served as Director since July, 2015.
The original contract was for two years to expire on June 30, 2017 but the Board voted in June, 2016 to extend the contract by two years based on overall high marks given by the Board in a director performance evaluation.
Cripps was recently evaluated again by the Board but the results have not yet been tabulated
Cripps’ annual salary is $85,000 paid in twelve equal monthly installments in accordance with the policy.
The next meeting of the DeKalb County Board of Education will be Thursday, March 8 at 7 p.m. at the Ernest Ray Education Center.
The agenda is as follows:
Consider and act on the Director’s Contract
Consider and act on approval of the Career and Technical Education 2017-18-Crossville
Consider and act on 2019-2020 school calendar
Consider and act on updating/adopting school board policies on 1st reading.
School updates and committee reports will be given.
A personnel report will also be given by the Director of Schools.
Any other business that may properly come before the Board.
The consent agenda is as follows:
Consider and act on a request for the Prom to be held off campus at “The Capitol Theater” in Lebanon on April 27
Consider and act on a request to submit 21st Century Grant application
Consider and act on an overnight trip request from DCHS Student to attend All-State Honors Chorus April 11-14
Consider and act on Budget Amendment for Soccer
Consider and act on extended bus utilization
Consider and act on Budget Amendment-CSH