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Board approves personnel recommendations, job-description and flowchart updates
Summary
The DeSoto County School District board on Nov. 6 approved pages of personnel recommendations and multiple organizational flowchart changes, including updates to reporting lines for several director-level positions and additional pay requests for after-school tutors and a critical-need teacher.
The DeSoto County School District board approved human-resources recommendations that included personnel changes, job-description updates and multiple organizational flowcharts.
Administration reported a packet containing pages 1–31 with recommended actions: paraprofessional assignments, requests for additional pay, district vehicle assignment, and updated flowcharts for operations, technology, residency, health services, risk management, child nutrition, transportation and physical plant maintenance. Pages 19–21 included a director-of-health-services job description change that adjusts reporting lines. The board approved personnel as presented.
The packet included requests for additional pay for staff providing after-school tutoring for special education students beginning Nov. 7 and running through May 22 at $30 per hour; another request asked approval for supplemental pay for a teacher to cover two geometry sections with a total supplement of $1,000 to be paid in two installments. Administrators said the extra-pay assignments were tied to federal program funding and special-education requirements in the packet.
Board members approved the personnel recommendations by voice vote. Several presenters noted steps would be taken to finalize administrative flowcharts and to implement new reporting structures.
