JAMESVILLE-DEWITT SCHOOL DISTRICT – Throughout its ultimate assembly of the college yr, the Jamesville-DeWitt Board of Schooling introduced to these attending in-person and listening over Zoom that the district’s enterprise administrator, Timothy Decker, has handed away.
Decker, who was 54, had fulfilled that function for J-D since 2009. His dying on June 3 stemmed from the uncommon and deadly Creutzfeldt-Jakob illness he was lately recognized with in accordance with a letter Superintendent Peter Smith despatched out to district workers.
“Tim was a colleague but additionally a detailed private pal of mine,” Smith stated through the board’s June 13 assembly. “I’ll miss him terribly.”
Calling him a “confidant,” Smith stated he appreciated Decker’s smarts and his “odd” but “super” humorousness. The superintendent’s earlier letter additionally recalled the Liverpool resident’s love {of professional} baseball and hockey and the truth that he was “extremely proud” of his spouse and their three kids.
Throughout his time with the district, Decker oversaw renovations to the highschool’s auditorium, the set up of recent roofs for every of the college buildings, and the capital tasks presently underway for the highschool and center college. He additionally lined all points of finance, together with the assembling of the annual working budgets that had been authorized yearly of his tenure.
Moreover, Decker was a frontrunner for non-instructional district operations within the areas of custodial work, meals service, upkeep, mechanics and transportation.
J-D has authorized an interim enterprise supervisor, Peter Mahunik, who lately retired from the identical place at Fabius-Pompey. He’ll start work in July, and the district will “instantly” start the method to discover a everlasting substitute.
