School board approves consent agenda, hires volunteer football coach and signs off on field trips

The Salem Community School Corporation Board on Tuesday approved an amended agenda and a slate of routine consent items, including personnel recommendations, retirements, technology contracts and several student field trips.

The board approved the consent agenda by voice vote and later recorded a 7–0 tally in favor of the package that included a recommendation to appoint Joseph Hanger as a volunteer assistant football coach, a short-term scheduling arrangement to extend a Dean of Students role for Shawna Yeager, and the resignation of Terry Moore from basketball duties. The board also acknowledged retirements, including Karen Newlin, and thanked staff for years of service.

Board members approved operational matters, overnight and day field trips (listed on the agenda for Cortland Central, New Middletown and South Central), and school fundraisers. The consent packet also contained non-personnel items approved without amendment: an engagement letter for LWGCPN advisors, a preschool fee reduction, the Paint the Plow project, an easement with Duke Energy and a recommendation for Five Star Technologies to extend wireless coverage to exterior athletic facilities and maintenance/transportation sites. The board voted 7–0 on the operational matters, field trips and fundraisers recorded in the minutes.

The board declared certain equipment surplus, including an aging vending machine at South Junior–Senior High School, and approved overnight trips tied to an academic Super Bowl and camps in Brandenburg and French Lick. Financial specifics and contract terms discussed in the consent packet were not read into the record.

Next steps: routine items will be implemented by administration where applicable and staff were authorized to proceed on the approved trips and contracts. No further formal actions on these items were taken at the meeting.