{"id":96099,"date":"2019-01-21T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/hires-funding-approvals-on-tap-for-mancos-school-board\/"},"modified":"2019-01-21T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T17:47:00","slug":"hires-funding-approvals-on-tap-for-mancos-school-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/hires-funding-approvals-on-tap-for-mancos-school-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Hires, funding approvals on tap for Mancos school board"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=154ac6cc-19a4-4bd1-b9c4-d9088e0073a7&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=154ac6cc-19a4-4bd1-b9c4-d9088e0073a7&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=154ac6cc-19a4-4bd1-b9c4-d9088e0073a7&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=154ac6cc-19a4-4bd1-b9c4-d9088e0073a7&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Superintendent of Mancos Schools, Brian Hanson, presents a preliminary budget to the board during their meeting Monday night.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Superintendent of Mancos Schools, Brian Hanson, presents a preliminary budget to the board during their meeting Monday night.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Mancos school board is set to consider approving a series of hires and funding authorizations at its regular meeting tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Directors are looking to hire Elijah Knepper as the head high school basketball coach for the rest of the 2018-19 season, Anna Cox as part-time high school administrative assistant and Lela Puckett as an elementary school paraprofessional.<\/p>\n<p>And funding-wise, the board will first consider approving the final budget for fiscal year 2018, after discussing it earlier in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Trustees will then decide whether to authorize the chief financial officer and the superintendent to borrow unencumbered money from other district funds consider approving part of the FY19 beginning fund balance for a series of purchases: $4,683,921 to continue the Mancos Re-6 Renovation Project, $25,400 to buy a Kubota diesel tractor, and $176,400 to purchase Donald Higman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s property at 300 W. Grand Ave.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting is scheduled to begin at  7 p.m. in Room No. 507 of the West Wing at the district campus just south of Grand Avenue and between Beech and Walnut streets.<\/p>\n<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-subheadline1\">Other business<\/div>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Directors will listen to presentations regarding project-based learning along with preschool.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">The board also will discuss the upcoming Colorado Association of School Boards Winter Legislative Conference, happening in Denver at the end of February.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Directors will consider approving the direction surrounding a district property issue.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:ealvero@the-journal.com\">ealvero@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Directors will listen to presentations regarding project-based learning along with preschool.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">The board also will discuss the upcoming Colorado Association of School Boards Winter Legislative Conference, happening in Denver at the end of February.<\/em><em class=\"mwc_body_bullet\">Directors will consider approving the direction surrounding a district property issue.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project-based learning and preschool discussions also set for discussion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[392],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-96099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-mancos-school-district-re-6"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96099"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=96099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}