Currier is voted new EPS board president

ENID, Okla. Ernie Currier brought Monday evenings Enid Public Schools Board of Education meeting to order with sharp rap of the gavel.

Im a little more forceful than Molly at least with the gavel, Currier quipped.

Currier has served as Enid city commissioner, Enid mayor and chairman of the Greater Enid Chamber of Commerce board, along with being a member of the NWOSU/NOC Advisory Board, the Vance Development Authority and the Autry Foundation board.

Molly Helm, formerly board president, and Cheryl Patterson, formerly vice president, both resigned Monday. Helm was not present, having submitted her resignation in advance because her sister has been offered a teaching position.

Patterson has been appointed Garfield County Election Board Secretary. State law prohibits each of them from serving on the school board following those events.

Board members voted Currier president and Kyle Whitehead vice president. The search for two new board members soon will begin.

Henson Construction, Enid, was awarded the bid for renovation work on Carver Early Childhood Center. Hensons bid for the work was $257,212. Six classrooms will be redone.

Each classroom will have a different color, and each child will have a T-shirt in a color that matches their room, said Karl White, chief financial officer for EPS.

In other business, board members approved a long list of routine contracts and appointments for the upcoming school year, including:

Transfers among funds and a contract with Blunck Studios for school photography services for Adams Elementary School.

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Currier is voted new EPS board president