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Rossville board approves routine personnel, policy and financial items; greenlights welding course and field trips
Summary
The Rossville Con School District board approved minutes/payroll, multiple personnel appointments (including substitute hires and coaching assignments), policy updates (several second reads adopted), donation acceptance, a five‑week AWS welding certification course, and out‑of‑state field trips; approvals were by voice vote during the Feb. 4 meeting.
The Rossville Con School District board approved a package of routine and program items during its Feb. 4 meeting, adopting minutes and financial claims, approving personnel appointments, accepting a donation, finalizing several policy revisions, and authorizing a welding certification course and student field trips.
Key votes and outcomes
- Minutes, claims and payroll: Chair (Speaker 2) moved to approve the minutes, claims and payroll as presented; the motion was seconded and approved by voice vote.
- Personnel approvals: The board accepted the resignation of a second‑shift custodian (Ben Stewart, effective Jan. 25, 2025) and approved multiple appointments and retroactive hires (substitute teachers and nurses, custodial staff, mentor assignment, and volunteer and paid coaching positions). A motion to approve personnel items carried by voice vote. Staff also described a proposed summer intervention program for third graders who did not pass the IREAD‑3 test and recommended hiring two teachers funded through Title I for summer retesting and intervention.
- Policy adoptions: The board approved second reads for chapter 7 policies (including take‑home vehicle, chemical management, pest control, fixed‑asset inventory, equal idling, energy conservation, and cyber safety) and moved two items presented as first reads (professional development/conference and educational‑related activities) forward in the review process; the motion to approve policy first and second reads passed by voice vote.
- Donations and finance: The board accepted a $75 donation from Mulberry Cooperative Telephone Company to the academic honors account and approved related financial items; the motion carried.
- Apprenticeship/CTE and field trips: The board authorized an AWS Welding Certification course offered in collaboration with the Clinton County Adult Education Learning Network (a five‑week, ~40‑hour program instructed by Jesse Davis), and approved several field trips including a planned ag trip to the National Farm Machinery Show in Louisville and a seventh‑grade trip to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago (April 29, 2025). The board also approved disposing of surplus items and returning a 2015 Ford Explorer to the district after a prior trade agreement; miscellaneous items were approved by voice vote.
- Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned; the board noted its next meeting is Tuesday, March 4 at 7 p.m.
Attribution and process notes
All approvals recorded in the transcript were voice votes with the board chair calling for aye/no responses; no roll‑call tallies with member names were recorded in the meeting transcript. Where the transcript identifies effective dates or specific personnel names (for example, Ben Stewart’s resignation effective 01/25/2025), those details are noted above as presented to the board.
