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Votes at a glance: MSD Martinsville board approves officer appointments, travel, waivers, grants and donations
Summary
The board approved routine and substantive items by voice vote including appointing finance officers, travel approval, representative appointments, a flexibility waiver application, electric bus purchase permission, a $45,000 PLTW grant, and three donations.
The MSD Martinsville Schools Board of Trustees carried a series of motions by voice vote at its first regular session of 2025. Items approved included officer appointments for the Board of Finance, consent agenda items, travel, several representative appointments, routine authorizations and a set of grants and donations.
Key votes and actions (approval method: voice vote unless otherwise noted):
- Appoint board officers as finance officers: Board President Heather Staggs, Vice President Luke Jackson and Secretary Dan Conway were appointed as the board of finance officers (motion carried).
- Consent agenda: December 19 regular session minutes, January 7 executive session minutes, payroll and claims, payroll report, personnel report and related consent items were approved (motion carried).
- Student field trips and professional travel: Approval for district staff to attend the Skyward ICON conference in St. Petersburg, Fla., for transition training (motion carried).
- Appointment of ISBA representative: Dan Conway was nominated and approved to serve as the district’s Indiana School Boards Association representative (motion carried).
- Appointment to the Martinsville Redevelopment Commission: Luke Jackson was nominated and approved as the district’s representative (motion carried).
- Authorization to sign for alternative placement: The board authorized designated officers to sign alternative placement documents for special‑needs student placements (motion carried).
- Cancellation of outstanding checks: The board approved canceling specified outstanding checks after recommended contact attempts with payees (motion carried).
- Permission to apply for a flexibility waiver: The board approved staff seeking permission to apply for the district flexibility waiver (permission to apply only; approval not guaranteed) (motion carried).
- Permission to purchase four electric buses (agenda G6): The board approved permission to purchase four electric buses and related chargers for initial deployment and trial (motion carried). See separate article for discussion and public comment.
- Project Lead The Way (PLTW) STEM grant: The board approved acceptance of a $45,000 PLTW grant to support K–6 STEM programming (motion carried). Staff also reported a related $5,000 PLTW award for elementary and pre‑K materials.
- Donations: The board accepted three donations: $500 from American Legion Unit 230 to the Martinsville High School wrestling team; $25,100 from Advantage Manufacturing to Arty's Cafe; and a corrected donation from American Legion to the John R. Wooden Middle School choir in the amount of $24,150 (correction to a previously approved amount). (All motions carried.)
Where the transcript does not record individual roll-call votes, the motions were approved by voice vote with the chair announcing "motion carries".
