GehlharAdam1Jamestown (CSi) Adam Gehlhar, an assistant principal at Cheney Middle School in West Fargo, is being offered the position of Jamestown High School Principal.

The School Board on Monday voted 8-0 to approve Superintendent Rob Lech’s recommendation. (Board member Greg Allen was not present.)

Gehlhar was one of five finalists to interview with a hiring committee of two administrators, two teachers and two Jamestown Public School Board members.

If he accepts the position, Gehlhar, would start at the beginning of the fiscal year, July 1, 2016, at a salary of $100,000 to be adjusted upon completion of negotiations, according to Lech.

Current JHS Principal Bill Nold is retiring at the end of the current school year.

Gehlhar is from Ypsilanti and attended Jamestown Public Schools. He served in the North Dakota National Guard, including two tours in Iraq, while earning a degree in social studies education and a master’s in educational leadership from North Dakota State University.

Gehlhar taught social studies in West Fargo’s STEM Center (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) for three years before becoming assistant principal at West Fargo High School and then at Cheney Middle School.

In other business, the schoolboard agreed to continue working with DLR Group, that conducted a school facilities assessment for the School Board in 2015.

DLR would assist Consolidated Construction, which the School Board also approved to create a 10-year capital improvement plan for all Jamestown Public Schools by using the DLR facilities report to cut costs, Lech said.

The second phase will be a community input period to help guide the facility improvement process before considering another referendum, Lech said.

The school board approved non-teaching professionals’ salaries for the 2016-2017 school year with a $2,000 increase for 12-month employees being pro-rated, according to negotiations.

The meeting was record by CSi Cable, with replays starting on Tuesday, on CSi 10, The Replay Channel.