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Munster board elects 2025 officers, sets member compensation and approves routine business
Summary
The School Town of Munster school board reorganized for 2025, electing officers, appointing treasurer and purchasing agent, approving member stipends and routine consent items including payroll and field trips; several actions passed unanimously.
At its reorganizational meeting, the School Town of Munster Board of School Trustees elected officers for 2025, appointed district officers, set board member compensation for the year and approved routine consent items and fundraising requests.
The board elected Kyle Dempsey as president for January———through December 2025. John Castro served as temporary chair during nominations and was later elected board secretary. Board member Kristen Smith was elected vice president. The board appointed Jessica Espinosa as corporate treasurer and also as corporate purchasing agent; those appointments were moved and seconded during the meeting and approved 5-0.
The board set the 2025 annual stipend at $2,000 per board member and retained per diem rates allowed by state law: $112 for regular school board meetings and $62 for other meetings; a motion to continue those amounts passed 5-0. The board also named Dr. Ingrid Schwartz Wolf as the legislative liaison to the Indiana School Board Association and John Castro as the district—policy liaison; several other committee and representative assignments (Munster Education Foundation, strategic planning committee, PTO representative, and a nonvoting adviser to the Munster Redevelopment Commission) were announced by the president.
On routine business, the board approved the consent agenda (minutes, payroll, accounts payable, personnel recommendations and professional learning requests) by a single motion and vote, accepted donations and approved fundraisers and an overnight field trip for the Munster High School speech and debate program. Those routine approvals were carried 5-0. During the Board of Finance organization, the trustees moved that the board of finance officers be the same as the regular board officers for 2025; that motion passed 5-0.
No controversial or divided votes were recorded on organizational items. The board temporarily adjourned to convene the Board of Finance and then returned to the regular meeting after the finance items were heard.
