Contracts approved by board

The Davis County School Board approved contracts for its classified staff Monday night even though a contract agreement has not been reached.

Superintendent Dan Maeder told the board he wanted to make sure those contracts were approved so jobs for those staff members would be secure. The district is still in contract negotiations with the staff.

Maeder later reported that a verbal tentative agreement had been reached with the teacher’s union for a 3.75 percent total package increase on their master contract.

School officials have to wrap up contract negotiations despite still not knowing for sure what the state legislature is going to provide next year for state aid payments. State lawmakers still have not settled allowable growth figures. 

Hospital board discusses postponing renovation

Without any official decision being made, the Davis County Hospital and its board of trustees put the brakes on a proposed renovation plan for the south and west wings of the hospital.

CEO Deb Herzberg presented the board with a recommendation to wait for a year and revisit the proposed renovation plan again. Herzberg’s recommendation came after she had reviewed financial figures and the 2014 fiscal year budget, which shows an estimated net profit of $488,688 for the year.

Herzberg commended the board as she said, “I think you guys are very forward thinking about this (the renovation project), but I’m not sure with the changes in healthcare that we should move forward with this now.”

Dan Thompson agreed, saying, “I love the idea of the project. I would love to do this now, but I don’t think it’s feasible yet.” 

Menus

School lunch menus for May 22--Breakfast: Biscuit and sausage gravy. Lunch: Cook’s choice, vegetable, fruit, and milk.

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Bloomfield Senior Citizens menu for May 22--Pork cutlet, parsley-buttered potatoes, mixed vegetables, and an ice cream cup. Activities: Wii games at 9-11:30 a.m. Cards at 12:45 p.m.

Mikels named valedictorian

Park Mikels	Sophia Cook	Colton L. Roberts
Christopher Gingerich	Audra Kincart	Dani McKee

Davis County senior Park Mikels was named the valedictorian of the class of 2013 Thursday night at the annual senior awards night ceremony. Dani Lea McKee was named the salutatorian.

As valedictorian, Mikels received the Dr. David W. Haufe Memorial Scholarship and McKee received the Jonathan Mark Haufe Memorial Scholarship.

Dollars for Scholars presented $66,045 in scholarships during the Senior Awards Ceremony Thursday night.

The Oris Latta Memorial Scholarship of $5,000 is the largest given and went to Sophia Cook. Others of $2,000 and or more were Park Mikels, Hamilton Family Scholarship Award, $3,000; Colton L. Roberts, Rick L Morgan Memorial Scholarship, $2,500; Christopher Gingerich, Patricia Smith Swab Scholarship, $2,250; and Audra Kincart, Southern Iowa Electric Scholarship, $2,000.

Seniors will graduate Sunday, May 19, during the annual Davis County High School graduation ceremony. The ceremony will begin at 2 p.m. and will be held at Mustang Stadium weather permitting. In the event of inclement weather, the ceremony will be moved inside to the high school gymnasium.

Grant not available, city changes plans

Supervisors to meet

School Board to meet

Storm causes damage Sunday night

A strong thunderstorm rolled through Davis County last night leaving one inch of rain officially at Lake Fisher.

The storm also brought with it some heavy rain in some places and winds that caused damage both north and south of Bloomfield. Trees and a farm building were damaged in Belknap. Trees were also damaged a few miles south of Bloomfield. 

High School to host meeting for incoming freshmen

The Davis County High School will host a meeting Monday night for all students who will be freshmen during the 2013-2014 school year.

The meeting will be held in the high school commons beginning at 6 p.m. All incoming freshman students and their parents are encouraged to attend the meeting to learn about the process of transitioning from eighth grade to high school.

Lady Mustangs lose two

The Lady Mustangs dropped to 0-2 on the season after being swept in a doubleheader at Fairfield Monday night. Fairfield beat Davis County 10-0 in the first game and 12-2 in the second.

Davis County returns to action Tuesday night hosting Wayne of Corydon. Action begins at 5:30 p.m. with the junior varsity game. The varsity game will follow. 

Mustangs lose opener

The Mustang baseball team opened its season Monday night with a 12-0 loss to Twin Cedars in five innings.

Twin Cedars scored three in the first and rallied for eight in the fourth on their way to the victory.

Davis County had just four hits in the game.

The Mustangs return to action Tuesday night hosting Wayne of Corydon. Action begins at 5:30 p.m. with the junior varsity game. The varsity game will follow.