Alma School District board adopts new base salary schedule and index; approves hires, expulsion after executive session

The Alma School District Board of Education approved a revised base certified salary schedule and a separate index schedule during its April meeting, and after an executive session the board approved two employment recommendations and accepted an administrative recommendation for student expulsion.

The board first approved the base salary schedule and later approved a separate index schedule; both motions passed on voice votes with no recorded roll call in the public transcript. The agenda included a prior discussion of stipend treatment and a proposal to keep stipends separate from the base schedule. The approved actions did not adopt the stipend changes at the time the base schedule was approved.

The board then approved recommendations for employment on the consent agenda. The administration recommended hiring Kelsey Stone as an eighth-grade teacher and volleyball coach at Alma Middle School and Ashton Ogilvy as a teacher at Alma Primary School; the board moved and seconded the recommendation and approved it on voice vote.

After an executive session to discuss a student discipline matter, the board returned to open session and voted to accept the administration’s expulsion recommendation. The transcript records the motion, a second and a voice vote of “aye” with the chair declaring the motion carried; no individual votes were read aloud in public minutes.

Other routine motions recorded in the minutes included approval of the March meeting minutes and the consent agenda earlier in the meeting.

The board convened an executive session on personnel and student discipline; the transcript shows the board entered executive session and later returned to open session before making the hiring and expulsion votes. No additional conditions, timelines or dissenting recorded votes were included in the public transcript.

The board adjourned after the final motions.

Votes at a glance - Approve March meeting minutes — approved (voice vote; individual votes not recorded in transcript). - Approve consent agenda (includes financial report and recommendations for employment on consent) — approved (voice vote). - Approve base certified salary schedule (stipends not included at that step) — approved (voice vote). - Approve index schedule — approved (voice vote). - Employment approvals: Kelsey Stone (teacher, Alma Middle School, eighth grade and volleyball coach) and Ashton Ogilvy (teacher, Alma Primary School) — approved (voice vote). - Accept administration recommendation for student expulsion — approved (voice vote).

All actions described above are recorded in the meeting transcript and minutes excerpts; the transcript does not include roll-call tallies or abstentions for these votes.