Rob Leich1Now Showing on CSi TV 10 – The Replay Channel.  Jamestown (CSi) T he Jamestown Public School Board, Monday approved a new contract for Superintendent Robert Lech. The one-year contract agreement is effective through June 30, 2016. It provides an annual salary of $140,946.

Lech said, he’s happy with the boards approval and feels, ‘fortunate to be in Jamestown.’

School Board Vice President, Heidi Larson said, “We are very pleased to have Mr. Lech back this next year to continue with the good work he is doing for our district.”

In his Strategic Plan Quarterly Progress Monitor report, Lech said the focus over the past three months has been on the enrollment study and the facility planning process, and preparing to implement the findings of the demographic study.

Lech said he would like the board to discuss allowing a Jamestown High School student to be a non-voting member of the School Board at the board retreat in October.

Larson said the student council reports are already presented to the board monthly during the school year and should continue.

In other business, the board approved, the administration master agreement, the central office administration and food service director contracts, hiring high school teachers including Allison Mack, business and computer teacher, Janelle Green science, Vanessa Grehl as a second-grade teacher at Roosevelt Elementary, and Mitch Ostlie as a marketing/IT instructor at the James Valley Career and Technology Center.

The meeting was recorded by CSi 10 THE REPLAY CHANNEL, with showings starting Tuesday morning.

A reminder, a public forum will be September 17th at the Jamestown Middle School, for residents to learn more about the proposed vote on a $19 million bond referendum that would approve or disapprove school building changes.

Early voting is September 15th through September 28th at the Stutsman County Courthouse.

Voting will be September 29th.