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Cabot School Board approves supplemental pay additions, policy updates and personnel; upholds expulsion recommendation
Summary
At its Nov. 18 meeting the Cabot School Board approved two additions to the 2025–26 supplemental salary schedule, updated maternity-leave and student-device policies, approved contractor waiver resolutions, confirmed personnel recommendations, and upheld an expulsion recommendation; all motions passed unanimously.
The Cabot School Board voted unanimously on Nov. 18 to approve several personnel and policy items, including additions to the 2025–26 supplemental salary schedule and an expulsion recommendation.
Board President Sarah Owen opened the meeting at 6:16 p.m. and the board then approved the consent agenda, which included the Oct. 21 minutes and the October financial report. The board recorded a 7-0 vote to accept the consent items; the motion was moved by Joe Trusty and seconded by Sally Beebe.
Superintendent Michael Byrd presented a package of pre-action items that the board considered as formal motions. The board approved updates to the supplemental salaries for 2025–26 to add a High School HOSA Advisor and a High School Sports Medicine Internship Program Director. The motion to approve the supplemental-salary update passed 7-0 (motion recorded as moved by Joe Trusty; second recorded as Joe Trusty in the minutes).
The board also approved waiver disclosure and resolution items for Sherry Voegele and Voegele Mechanical Contractors and for Christy and Jason Rogers and The Makery. The Voegele disclosure was approved on a 7-0 vote (mover Marvin Jones, second James Hertzog); the Rogers disclosure was approved on a 7-0 vote (mover James Hertzog, second Sally Beebe).
Policy updates carried by unanimous votes included revised certified and classified maternity-leave policies (3.63 and 8.45) and an addition requested by the Arkansas Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to the Possession and Use of Personal Electronic Devices policy (4.47) for the 2025–26 student handbook (mover James Hertzog, second Marvin Jones for the devices policy; mover Sally Beebe, second James Hertzog for maternity policies).
The board voted to approve the sale of specified food-service department property and remove those items from district inventory (motion by Kevin Tipton, second by Joe Trusty; passed 7-0).
On a disciplinary matter, the board voted 7-0 to uphold the administration's recommendation to expel student 9553 for the remainder of the 2025–26 school year, with the option of administrative review at the end of the third nine-week period if the student complies with stipulations set by the administration (motion by Kevin Tipton, second by James Hertzog).
Finally, the board approved personnel as presented in the meeting packet, including certified retirements, certified and classified hires, resignations, transfers and one-semester leaves of absence. The personnel approvals are contingent on completion of licensure requirements and successful background and child-maltreatment registry checks.
The meeting adjourned at 9:15 p.m.
