HISD considers vacancies

Hedley ISD Trustees will be appointing two new board members this summer after two of its members moved out of the school district.

HISD Board President Dana Bell announced the resignation of Trustee Ted Wright at the board’s regular meeting Monday night, June 15, and said that Holly McCleskey’s letter of resignation is expected at the July meeting.

Bell said the board needs to be thinking about who might be good candidates to be appointed, and he reminded the remaining members of the board – Aaron Harper, Lana Ritchie, Troy Monroe, and Carole Ward – that they need to pay special attention to their attendance at meetings in order to preserve the quorum until Wright’s and McCleskey’s positions are filled.

In other school business, Tresa Alston administered the oath of office to Bell and Ward as they start their new terms on the board. Trustees then voted to organize the board with Bell continuing as president, Ward as vice president, and Ritchie as secretary.

The board also heard administrative reports from Principal Reida Penman and Superintendent Colby Waldrop, adopted policy updates, approved increasing school lunch rates by ten cents, and met in closed session to discuss personnel.

During public comments, the board heard from Clarendon Chamber of Commerce President Roger Estlack, thanking the school for the job it does educating local youth and as one of the county’s largest employers and encouraging the school district to join the Chamber, and from Robert Papa, who commented about how well his son has done as a student at HISD.