Muscogee County School Board to discuss job recommendations

Jonathan Frederick Walz is being recommended for the position of director of curatorial affairs and curator of American art for the Columbus Museum.

The Muscogee County School Board will consider Walz and other job recommendations at a work session Tuesday night in the Muscogee County Public Education Center on Macon Road.

The work session begins at 5 p.m.

The last position that Walz had was as curator of American art at the Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Before that, he was curator at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla.

A graduate of Asbury College in Wilmore, Ky., he has a master’s degree and Ph.D from the University of Maryland, College Park.

In other business:

▪  Superintendent David Lewis is asking the board to approve his choice of Ronald Taylor as assistant principal at Jordan High School.

According to the meeting agenda, Taylor has 36 years of combined teaching and leadership experience.

He has served as a principal at two high schools in New Orleans, Booker T. Washington Vocational and John McDonogh Vocational.

He recently served as manager of education programs for the Tallahatchie Correctional Facility in Tutwiler, Miss.

▪  Kelli McKenzie is Lewis’ choice for assistant director for school nutrition.

McKenzie has almost 30 years of food service and business operations experience and has teaching experience in the Muscogee County School District.

▪  Lewis is expected to present a recommendation for principal at St. Mary’s Elementary but has not yet released the name.

▪  The board will receive a construction status report and also reports from the Columbus Museum and Chattahoochee Valley Libraries.

▪  The board will receive a financial report on the SPLOST revenue schedule as of June 30.

This story was originally published July 4, 2016 at 3:49 PM with the headline "Muscogee County School Board to discuss job recommendations."