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Spencer‑Owen board approves grant, donations, cosmetology pathway and routine items in unanimous votes
Summary
The Spencer‑Owen Community Schools board unanimously approved a $1,038.17 grant for middle‑school science kits, three donations totaling $8,500 for meal assistance and Backpack Buddies, a cosmetology curricular pathway at the high school, overnight field trips and routine personnel and surplus items; all motions passed 7–0.
The Spencer‑Owen Community Schools board approved several routine but substantive items in a single meeting session, recording unanimous roll‑call votes on motions brought during new business.
The board accepted a $1,038.17 grant from the Community Foundation for Owen Valley Middle School to purchase electricity and magnetism science kits. The board also accepted three donations: $6,000 from Shiloh Wesley United Methodist Church to support student meal accounts, $1,000 from Jean Troll for the Backpack Buddies program, and $1,500 from Shiloh Wesley Church for continued Backpack Buddies support. District staff described the meal‑account fund as important for ensuring students have breakfast and lunch.
The board approved a request to declare certain Owen Valley High School items surplus so they may be discarded, stored or sold. Members also voted to approve a cosmetology pathway as a curricular addition at Owen Valley High School; administration will return at the March meeting with position‑control paperwork and a detailed job description for the instructor post. A single motion also covered personnel items a–d, which were approved with no separate discussion recorded.
The board approved three overnight or out‑of‑state field trips: two trips for the wrestling team to Evansville (semi‑state and finals) and an FFA leadership trip to Trafalgar that had taken place before the meeting. The board noted eight wrestlers qualified to travel for the semi‑state event.
All motions reported in new business and routine items were passed by roll call with a recorded tally of seven yes votes and zero no votes; the meeting record lists Mark, Chad, Dina, Rick, Liz, Jack and Derek as voting yes on the motions. No motion failed or was tabled during the meeting.
The meeting closed after a motion to adjourn carried 7–0; the chair invited post‑adjournment public comment but none was offered.
