(Audubon, Iowa) – Shared Audubon and Coon Rapids-Bayard Community School District Superintendent Eric Trager has announced that after nearly four decades in education – most of which was in the Audubon School District, he will be retiring at the end of the current school year. His decision was announced during Monday’s regular meeting of the Audubon School Board.

Eric Trager has been involved in education for 38-year, with 36 of those years serving the Audubon School District.

He says he’s looking forward to “Whatever comes next.”

Eric Trager

In other business the Audubon School Board, Monday, passed the first reading of a Discipline Policy for students who make threats of violence or cause incidents of violence.

He said “At the end of the day, it’s pretty redundant policy [the policy coming down from the legislature]. Everything that’s in there we already had in our policy. We’ve dealt with these situations.”

The Audubon School Board approved the district’s Early Retirement plan during their meeting, Monday night.

And, Superintendent Trager updated the Board on the District’s Certified Enrollment numbers.

He said also, they’re wrapping things-up in terms of the building project. They’re just down to waiting for the arrival of flooring and ceiling materials, and there’s still quite a bit of work to do on the auditorium, but it’s moving along.

Then they’ll start with the project “punch list,” which at last check was 55-pages long. The goal is to have an open house sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas, so district patrons can come in and see what their tax dollars have paid for.