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Board approves personnel hires, policy updates and routine business; accepts donation
Summary
The board approved personnel recommendations (including hires for custodial, band director and English teacher positions), approved multiple policy updates listed in the packet, accepted a $360 donation and approved miscellaneous items such as a meeting date change and bus use for Special Olympics transportation.
The Rossville Con School District board approved several personnel and routine administrative items during its meeting.
Personnel actions approved included acknowledgment of resignations and recommendation-based hires: Richard Cook for a custodial position pending background check; Austin Sadell as band director with a base salary of $49,000 plus instrument stipends; Diana Skinner as an English teacher with a reported base salary of $62,000; and Shannon Harmon recommended as a consultant for student services at a rate cited as $6,000 for the 2026–27 school year. The board approved these personnel items by motion and voice vote.
Policy updates were presented as part of the packet and included the student AI use policy (first reading), revisions to public‑records access and educational records policies, a new wireless‑device prohibition policy and updates to student discipline rules and law‑enforcement interrogation procedures. The board moved to approve the policy items "as presented." The transcript does not clearly indicate which items, if any, were separated for further reading; the packet materials were referenced.
The board accepted a $360 donation received in memory of Nancy Goyer, a former district custodian, and approved miscellaneous items including a change of the July meeting date from July 7 to July 14, removal of an obsolete classified position from the retirement profile, approval of school bus use for Clinton County Special Olympics (with reimbursement of driver and fuel costs), and a set of approved summer trips and fundraisers.
Approved field trips and events included FFA contests, state qualifiers, child‑care activities, a state fair event and a national NSDA conference attendance (Richmond, Virginia, June 14–19). The board adjourned with the next meeting scheduled for July 14 at 7:00 p.m.
