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Rossville Schools - November 4, 2025 - Board of Education Meeting

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YouTube / Rossville Consolidated School District
Date
2025-11-05
Location
Clinton County, IN
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Transcript
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905 words · about 6 min
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2026-06-08

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001Okay. >> Ready. >> All right. We'll call this meeting to order. >> Public comment. >> Um, we have no one sign up for public comment. Anyone that we missed? Hearing none, we will move on. Thank you. First item on the agenda is approval of the minutes consideration claims and payroll. The board last met on October 21st, 2025. Board members received the claims docket, payroll claims, and minutes in advance of the meeting. October fund and bank statements also provided for the board for review. Um, if you have any questions, please feel free. >> I move to approve the minutes, claims, and payrolls as presented. >> Second. Been properly moved and seconded to approve the minutes, claims, and payrolls as presented. Is there any discussion >> hearing? None. All those in favor signify by saying I. [groaning]

002>> I. Oppose. Same sign. That motion carries. >> New business. Personnel items. Consideration of resignation. Brenda Loveless her resignation as a secondary math teacher effective immediately. Uh appointments. Mr. Mr. Hammond's recommending Amy's tune uh for the secondary math position for the 24-25 school year began November the 3rd, 20125 and prorated salary of 52,000. Other appointments uh recommending um as a substitute teacher retroactive back to the 23rd of October, Amy Shune, and then as a substitute um Brooklyn Morris. appointments. Mr. Burkel, boys basketball, Britson Soning, grade three. Tommy Dillingham, grade two and two and three cheer. Shelley Mitchell for grades five and six volunteer assistant coach. Uh Brianna Hopper for girls basketball sixth grade head coach and wrestling Dalon Lynch a volunteer middle school coach. Uh also appointments, uh Mr. Mr. Hammonds is recommending Sierra Hall

003as a homebound instructor for Rosville Middle Senior High School student two days a week, Monday and Wednesday for one hour per day to be compensated or hourly rate of 3224. >> I move to approve the personnel items as presented. >> Second. >> Been properly moved and seconded to approve the personnel items as presented. Is there any discussion? >> Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. >> I. Oppose. Same sign. That motion carries. >> Consideration updates the policy manual. I work with Indiana School Boards Association, Julie Slavvens, uh, to update the manual. Um, and we just recently had a meeting and there were a few items that she indicated it should be updated and or revised. Section 3030, uh, deputism that's been revised. 30 4322 truency has been revised. 4540 equal access

004non-school sponsored groups. It's a new policy. Uh 6120 threshold of material loss, shortage and or theft of school funds or property that was reviewed. And then 6130 collection and forgiveness of debt has been revised. Those are the policies up for first read. >> I move to approve the policy items as presented. >> Second and properly moved and seconded to approve the policy items as presented. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Oppose. Same sign. That motion carries. Uh financial items. Consideration of donation. Chair Keystone Foundations for the FFA $600. Fraternal Lord Police to the athletic department for $1,000. We're also allowing Alliance Club for the wrestling program of $2,000. Frankfurt BFW uh the musical program $500. the Crep family to the musical program $1,500 and the Crep

005family district band and and middle high school choir departments $250. Other financial items, uh, teacher compensation at 62% pursuant to Indiana code 20-28-9-28, school corporations are required to spend at least 62% of the actual state tuition support on teachers compensation each fiscal year. Teacher compensation includes is defined by Indiana code 2018 to 22D. A teacher for the purpose of of the code uh means a classroom teacher license under Indiana code 20285 who provides instruction to a student at least 50% of the teachers work day. So we have some teachers that teach that are excluded from that. So, um, our literacy coach, for example, title one, they're excluded from those calculations. Um, we're required to meet that 62%, we did not. We were 60.47. My understanding if we add those teachers back in, we would be

006there. Um, since we didn't meet it, we have to public acknowledge that at this public meeting and post a notice on a district website within 30 days of the meeting. So once we uh the board approves that or documents that we'll get it posted. Other financial items uh public hearing on additional appropriation. The public has afforded uh the opportunity to be heard concerning a proposed additional appropriation [clears throat] uh to the 2025 budget education fund. Uh additional appropriation was advertised in the times of Carol County Common October the 22nd. Uh time is set aside for public testimony. This time we'd like to open the meeting up for public testimony on the additional appropriations. If anyone would like to address the board or speak on this topic, please make yourself known. You'll have three minutes. Hearing

007no one, we will close the public testimony portion of our meeting and move on to approve the financial items. >> I move we approve the financial items as presented. >> Second. been properly moved and seconded to approve the financial items as presented. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. That motion carries. >> So, declaration of surplus equipment. It's a miscellaneous item. We have a few items that are up on publics surplus.com. I encourage folks to go there. Uh, one of the items is a a nice little tricycle. Um, so if you need you have somebody you know that needs a little tricycle, it hadn't had any bids yet, so that's that's a a good deal. If you need a conference table, we

008have a nice conference table. Um, and some other items as well. Uh, so that those items are up on public surplus.com. >> I move we approve the miscellaneous items as presented. >> Second. I properly moved and seconded to approve the miscellaneous items as presented. Is there any discussion hearing? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. Oppose. Same sign. That motion carries. >> So, we just received, just so you know, um, for the ban, it was $2,25, I believe, and there must have been another item in there. So, we just received our funds today. Okay. >> So, I got that notice today. So, the van, just real quick history. Um, that was a government surplus van. paid $2,000 for it, sold it for 2025. So, it's a pretty good deal. Drove

009it for seven years. >> Field trips, student services, leadership ethics conference Indianapolis on uh the 25th of November. And then conferences uh Taylor Meek um from Nonsense numbers at Purdue on the 12th of November and Kyle Edington uh at Franklin High School on March the 19th. Nationalism and Perilism in the Gilded Age. >> Okay. And with that, I'll ask for a motion to adjourn our meeting. >> A motion to adjourn the meeting. >> Second. Been properly moved. Second to adjourn our meeting. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. I. Oppose. Same sign. A motion carries. Our meeting is adjourned. Our next board meeting will be Tuesday, December 2nd at 7 p.m. here in the library. >> Yep. >> Library. Okay. Very good. Thank you all for attending.

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