By Emily Younker
eyounker@joplinglobe.com
WEBB CITY, Mo. — Three Webb City schools will have new principals next year, though all are faces familiar to the district.
Trey Moeller, who has been the principal of the junior high school for 12 years, will become principal of Webb City High School. He previously spent seven years as a coach and teacher at the high school, and three years as a high school assistant principal.
Moeller, who will replace retiring Principal Stephen Gollhofer, said he has enjoyed working with the students and staff at the junior high school. But he looks forward to new challenges and working with students at a “different stage of their educational careers.”
“I’m looking forward to reconnecting with several of the kids who have come through the junior high,” he said. “I think it will be interesting to see how they’ve grown and changed.”
Tim Davied, an assistant principal at the high school, will replace Moeller as junior high school principal.
Shawn Mayes, an elementary school physical education teacher, will fill Davied’s position as assistant principal at the high school.
Sarah Lee, a third-grade teacher at Eugene Field Elementary, will become principal of Webster Primary Center. Bobbie Dykens, the principal at Webster for the past 10 years, announced her retirement in February.
The school board approved the personnel reassignments at its regular meeting Tuesday.
In other business, the board approved a bid of $44,346 from Gerken Environmental Enterprises Inc. of Springfield — the lowest of three bids — to remove floor tiles containing asbestos in the junior high school.
Toby Bottom, associate superintendent for support services, said the original wings of the junior high school were built with tiling that had asbestos, as often was the case in old buildings. He said the company will rip up and dispose of the tiles and the glue, and the district then will put in regular tiling.
The project will be done over the summer because the school will not be a summer school site and can be closed, Bottom said.
The board also approved about $69,000 to install lighting at the softball field. Superintendent Ron Lankford said the team currently has to schedule games early enough in the afternoon to finish before nightfall.
Mohawk
Dan McGrew, president of the Webb City School Board, was sporting a mohawk haircut at Tuesday’s meeting in honor of the high school girls basketball team, which has advanced to the state semifinals.
