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Tri County board approves personnel, handbooks, field trips and representative; financial claims approved with at least one dissent
Summary
The board approved multiple routine motions including personnel appointments, primary/intermediate and junior‑senior handbook updates, three overnight field trips, and the appointment of Kai Hickner as the teachers’ representative; the claims docket passed with at least one opposed vote.
The Tri County School Corporation board on Monday approved several routine administrative items and appointments.
Personnel: The board accepted three employment recommendations: a third‑grade teacher hire, Officer Page as Tri County Police chief, and a sixth‑grade instructional aide; it also acknowledged two staff transfers. Those appointments were presented by the chair and approved by voice vote.
Handbooks and academic policy: The board approved the Tri County Primary and Tri County Intermediate handbooks following minor edits and then approved updates for Tri County Junior‑Senior High (including honor council guidance and plagiarism/AI language). The junior‑senior high motion was recorded as passing 5–0.
Representative appointment: The board approved Kai Hickner to serve as the Tri County Classroom Teaching Organization representative to the health‑insurance trust; the chair presented the recommendation and the board approved the appointment by voice vote.
Field trips: The board approved three overnight out‑of‑state field trips — a Washington, D.C., leadership conference (chaperoned by Hickner), an FFA reward trip to St. Louis and a Pine Creek leadership camp — by motion and voice vote.
Financials and claims: The chair presented the monthly transfer report and end‑of‑month financials. The board considered the claims and payroll docket; the transcript records a voice vote that included one member saying “I opposed,” so the approval passed with at least one dissent (the transcript did not record a precise numeric tally for that vote).
No contested policy changes were adopted; several informational items (including the first reading of the Indiana Online partnership and the upcoming school‑safety grant application) were discussed but left for future action.
