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Committee approves repurposing three vacant positions into middle-school athletic trainers
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The Finance and Facilities Committee approved repurposing three existing vacant positions to create middle-school athletic trainer roles, with trainers to provide sideline care and teach additional courses; no new net funds were requested.
The Finance and Facilities Committee approved a plan to repurpose three existing vacant positions as middle-school athletic trainers, after staff said the move would cost no additional money and would provide both on-field medical coverage and instructional capacity.
Staff told the committee that the district currently has athletic trainers at the high school level but not at middle schools and that contracting with outside providers would be more costly. "Financially, it actually made more sense to repurpose the three positions," said a staff presenter.
Under the plan, the repurposed positions would perform athletic training duties for practices and games and also teach classes such as health, physical education, and movement education to ease class-size pressures. The presenter said those three positions are existing vacancies and therefore would not increase the district—s overall FTE count or require additional budget appropriations.
Board members voiced support for having trainers available at schools for injury assessment and follow-up. One member said trainers are ``a necessary component'' because they make critical return-to-play judgments during games.
A motion to approve the repurposing carried after a second; the committee asked staff to ensure board notification about position changes so members were "not in the dark" about reassignments.
The committee asked staff to coordinate between finance, HR and instruction to complete audits of vacant positions and to confirm which vacancies would be converted.
