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Munster board approves consent agenda, buses and new courses; all motions carry 4–0
Summary
The School Town of Munster board voted unanimously on several routine and substantive items: consent agenda (minutes, vouchers, personnel, overnight trips), a donation, fundraisers, purchase of two Bluebird buses, new high‑school courses and the proposed course guide for 2025–26.
The School Town of Munster Board of School Trustees took unanimous votes on a set of routine and programmatic items during its meeting.
On a single motion, the board approved the consent agenda (items 5.1–5.5), which the administration said included approval of minutes from the Feb. 10 regular meeting and Feb. 24 special meeting, accounts payable and payroll voucher registers, a personnel report (employment recommendations, resignations, leave requests and professional learning), and approval of overnight field trips for multiple student groups. Trustee Castro moved to approve the consent agenda; Trustee Schwartz Wolf seconded. The motion passed 4–0.
The board approved one donation: $765 to the Wilbur Wright Middle School student council from the PTO. Trustee Schwartz Wolf moved and Trustee Smith seconded the donation motion; the vote was 4–0.
The board approved fundraisers submitted in February, including athletic and extracurricular fundraising (baseball, soccer, volleyball, cheer, speech and debate, theater, culture cuisine club, and others). Trustee Castro moved and Trustee Smith seconded; vote 4–0.
The administration recommended purchase of two Bluebird rear‑engine school buses as part of a budgeted plan to purchase up to five buses in 2025. Trustee Schwartz Wolf moved the bus purchase; Trustee Castro seconded. The motion carried 4–0.
The board approved new course offerings at Munster High School for the 2025–26 school year — including Computing Foundations for the Digital Age (a state‑required course), Personal Financial Responsibility (a new diploma requirement being considered for embedding with economics), and a reconfiguration of English/pre‑AP/AP sequencing that would introduce AP Seminar in 10th grade while shifting pre‑AP material earlier — and approved the larger MHS 2025–26 proposed course guide with its revised diplomas chart. Motions to approve those items carried 4–0.
Vote tallies reported by the board: all recorded motions passed with four votes in favor and no recorded opposition or abstention. Several motions listed the mover and seconder in the public record as noted above; where a mover or seconder was not audibly clear in the transcript, the board recorded the vote as 4–0.
Why it matters: the bus purchases and course approvals will directly affect scheduling, transportation capacity and diploma planning for upcoming school years. The approval of the course guide sets the roadmap families and counselors will use for scheduling and graduation pathways.
