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Board approves series of fiscal and personnel actions, extends attendance bonus for service staff
Summary
The Gilmer County Board approved routine minutes and bills, granted the superintendent permission to approve a workers' compensation carrier and to pay bills between meetings, approved budget supplements/transfers, and extended a 2% attendance incentive for service personnel for 2026-27; multiple hires and prior-service credit were also approved.
The Gilmer County Board of Education approved a package of routine fiscal and personnel actions during its late-June meeting, including continuing an expanded attendance incentive for service personnel and authorizing the superintendent to finalize insurance and interim bill processing.
Ginger, reporting on accounts payable, summarized why regular bill approvals were necessary: "Okay, so we sent quite a few bills out to you. Everyone finish up ... This is just us continuing to get those payments in before the end of the year." The board approved payment of presented bills and later granted the superintendent permission to approve bills dated June 9—July 3 so checks could be processed before the next meeting.
On personnel compensation, the superintendent recommended continuing an expanded attendance incentive for service personnel "not to exceed 2% of the individual service personnel employment contract effective for the 2627 school year and reconsider on a yearly basis based on the district financial fiscal needs." Board members moved, seconded and approved the continuation of the incentive by voice vote.
The board also approved a request to give the superintendent permission to select the workers' compensation carrier for 2026—27 because bid results would not be back before the next meeting. The superintendent described relying on the district's insurance agent to bring a recommendation when bids return.
Other routine actions approved included annual embedded credit agreements with Calhoun Gilmer Career Center (embedded math and English credit for CTE coursework), budget supplements and transfers through June 30, and the hiring and service-personnel items on the personnel docket: hiring Rebecca Chesser (6th-grade teacher) and Carolyn Lawler (ECAT classroom transportation aide), and granting Norman Eisenhart 10 years prior service credit as a bus operator. The board also granted permission to post for a middle-school golf coach.
Where the transcript records votes it uses voice approval; individual roll-call tallies were not recorded in the transcript for these routine items.
