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Board approves salary schedules, multiple policy updates and routine staffing items
Summary
Trustees approved 2026–27 salary schedules and step/lane movements, retired a redundant policy, advanced new policy language on facility use and student devices, and approved staffing and routine financial items in a single meeting.
The Hot Springs County School District No. 1 board approved a series of routine administrative and policy matters including the 2026–27 salary schedules, staffing recommendations, bills and financial statements, and several policy revisions and adoptions.
On policy, trustees approved multiple revisions on second and final reading (including a set of JL* policies) and advanced a student cell-phone policy on first reading; the administration will work to align staff handbooks to the new policy language. The board also retired a policy covering epinephrine auto-injectors after consolidating that content into another policy.
Trustees approved district salary schedules and step/lane movements effective July 1. Chair (Speaker 2) and trustees thanked certified and classified staff for the school year and acknowledged the work of the business office preparing the schedules and the FY26 audit materials.
Routine consent actions — minutes, staffing recommendations and bills and financial statements — were approved by voice vote. The board also approved disposal of a 2006 Bluebird passenger bus and a 2004 Ford Excursion via public auction and awarded the district fuel bid for fiscal year 2027 to Homex Oil Sales Incorporated.
Trustees said they would improve distribution of sponsor and club lists for board review to ensure the board’s policy requirement to approve organizations and sponsors is met.
