The Hardin County Board of Education approved a consent agenda of routine items and elected board officers for 2024 during its regular meeting.

On a motion to approve the consent agenda, the board voted by voice and the motion carried. The consent agenda included the creation of a district orchestra program; approval of requests for early graduation for 1 North Hardin and 6 Central Hardin students effective Feb. 16; multiple student travel approvals (Central Hardin JROTC drill team to Dayton, Ohio; Central Hardin FFA team to El Reno, Oklahoma; John Hardin High School senior class to Gatlinburg; EC 3 HOSA to Houston, Texas); extension of additional-duty pay for before-school, ESS, after-school and summer-school work through June 30, 2024; declaration of surplus transportation items for auction; contract with TNT Construction for the Early Learning Academy; change orders for Central Hardin and a BG-1 for the Lincoln Trail HVAC project; approval of a $9,000 anonymous donation to West Hardin Middle School volleyball; certification of financial reports and school-activity fund balances; approval of schoolwide fundraisers; personnel actions; and other routine board minutes and SBDM items.

The board then elected officers for 2024. Dr. Harris nominated Don Johnson as board chair; the nomination was seconded and approved by voice vote. A motion to elect Ben Sego as vice chair (listed in the transcript as "Ben Seagull/Sego") was seconded and carried by voice vote. Superintendent Teresa Morgan was affirmed as board secretary-treasurer for 2024. The board also moved to affirm Don Johnson as chair and secretary-treasurer of the District Finance Corporation. Finally, the board approved the 2024 regular meeting schedule, generally set for the third Thursday of each month with rotating school locations.

All votes reported in the transcript were voice votes with "aye"/"opposed" calls and outcomes recorded as motion carries; no roll-call vote tallies by member name were provided in the public transcript.

The consent agenda contains multiple items that may have budgetary implications — for example, contract and change-order approvals and an extension of additional-duty pay through June 30, 2024 — but the board discussed no substantive amendments to those items during the meeting and took no separate recorded roll-call votes on them.

The meeting adjourned after the officer elections and schedule approval.