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Pike County School Corporation board approves routine measures, hears teacher-salary shortfall
Summary
The Pike County School Corporation board approved routine claims, donations, personnel appointments and several administrative measures; the board also publicly acknowledged it is not meeting Indiana's $45,000 minimum teacher-salary requirement and authorized steps required by statute.
The Pike County School Corporation board on Tuesday approved a slate of routine items — minutes, vouchers, donations, fundraisers, personnel changes and contracts — and formally acknowledged it is not meeting the staterequired minimum teacher salary.
At the start of the meeting the board approved minutes from the regular session and executive session and moved through financial reports showing the district's combined bank balances and fund balances, including $6,349,951.89 reported in its German American account and an education fund balance of $212,292.86. Board members approved claims and vouchers by voice/hand vote.
Superintendent Thelma told the board the district had received a letter citing noncompliance with Indiana Code 20-28-9-26, which sets a $45,000 minimum teacher salary. The superintendent said the law requires the district to acknowledge the letter publicly during the meeting, to include the acknowledgement in the official minutes and to publish notice on the district website after the meeting.
Other approvals included acceptance of several donations (including $125 from Wood Knuckles Custom and contributions to summer-learning training), approval of multiple school fundraisers, recycling of obsolete electronics, and routine annual updates to elementary school handbooks. The board approved a support-staff wage scale for 2026-27 with a supplemental-pay approach for the food service director role and a new 210-day calendar for school resource officers.
The board approved a recommendation to hire Harmon Consulting Service to assist with the district's budget-cycle planning and compliance work, and it approved an administrative restructuring to absorb the vacant Winslow principal position, a change the superintendent said will save the district about $121,000 next year. The board also authorized hiring a real-estate agent to seek lease opportunities for the central office building and part of the old Petersburg gym.
Under personnel items the board approved multiple coaching assignments and other routine hires, confirmed Clayton Tyree as maintenance foreman with a retroactive start date of July 1, and recommended Carla Selheimer assume the food service director responsibilities with a $1,400 annual supplemental pay stipend.
The superintendent and other speakers praised the maintenance and operations teams for summer projects and noted the arrival of new buses now awaiting state inspection. The meeting closed after a motion to adjourn; members said the meeting lasted less than 30 minutes.
The most consequential non-routine items from the meeting are the formal public acknowledgement of the state salary notice and the district's approved plan to withdraw from a regional special-education cooperative that is dissolving in 2027; both items were presented and approved in the meeting and will require follow-up work by district staff.
