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Vincennes school board approves fees, contracts and an additional $1.099 million appropriation
Summary
The board approved consumable curricular fees (average estimated $20–$25 per high-school student depending on courses), a contract for orientation/mobility services with the Evansville Association for the Blind, a five-year IT services renewal, authority to hire over the summer, and a requested additional appropriation of $1,099,000 to the district’s debt-service fund.
The Vincennes Community School Corporation board approved a package of governance and fiscal items at its meeting, including fees for consumable curricular materials, contracts for student services and information-technology support, authority for the superintendent to hire over the summer, and a requested additional appropriation to the debt-service fund.
Administrators said state funding does not cover all consumable materials for certain courses and proposed a list of consumable fees. The administration estimated an average out-of-pocket cost of roughly $20–$25 for a typical high-school student depending on course selection; specific course fees were listed in the materials reviewed by the board (welding was cited as an example at $50). Administrators emphasized these are consumable/course fees, not textbook fees, and that families qualifying for free or reduced-price status would be accommodated. The board approved the fees by voice vote.
The board approved a contract with the Evansville Association for the Blind to provide orientation and mobility services for blind students. The motion was moved, seconded and carried by voice vote.
The administration also recommended renewing a five-year services agreement with a vendor identified in the record as AM for district IT services and business-continuity/data services. The current contract was cited in the discussion as $277,935; administrators described increases over the term (the meeting record lists a year-one figure around $294,000 and a projected year-five figure that is truncated in the transcript). The board approved entering the five-year agreement and the additional business-continuity service.
For district budgeting, administration reported that the Department of Local Government Finance (DLGF) approved supplemental authority and the board moved to place on record an additional appropriation to the debt-service fund of $1,099,000 to cover lease, rental and interest obligations. The board approved the appropriation in the meeting.
The board also granted Superintendent Greg Parsley authority to hire over the summer to avoid losing candidates; the superintendent said he will report hires to the board after the summer. Administrators said a final-skills summer school program for elementary, middle and high-school students was approved along with recommended certified teachers and paraprofessionals.
Several items were approved by voice vote with motions and seconds; where the transcript records only voice approval, explicit roll-call tallies were not included in the meeting record.
