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Board approves multiple personnel actions; committee reports detail mandatory training schedule and CPI requirements
Summary
The board approved a slate of hires, transfers and resignations and received a report from the personnel committee outlining required employee trainings and the district's nonviolent crisis intervention (CPI) certification schedule and costs.
The Warwick County School Corporation board approved multiple employment actions, including temporary and permanent hires, transfers and accepted resignations across district schools. Human Resources Director Dr. Doug Gresham presented the personnel slate, which included certified and noncertified appointments, transfers and resignations; the board approved the items, with one abstention recorded on the certified/noncertified staff vote.
Dr. Gresham reported on a personnel, food-nutrition and custodial committee meeting held Sept. 8 that produced a schedule for required trainings. He said bloodborne-pathogens training is required annually for all employees, and child-abuse-and-neglect training is required of certain certified staff when renewing licenses and of all noncertified employees every other year. The committee identified eight to ten required trainings on a rotating cycle and noted that state legislative changes require the district to update training schedules frequently.
The report also addressed nonviolent crisis intervention training (CPI). Gresham said district staff have provided CPI for more than a decade and that the program is now a state law requirement; initial CPI training is described as a four-day course with recertification requiring two days, and some staff must renew certification every three years. Gresham said there is no cost to staff for CPI certification; when training occurs during the school day the district provides substitutes, and summer training carries a professional-development stipend for attendees.
The board approved personnel recommendations and heard the committee report; no public commenters spoke on personnel matters at the meeting.
