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Board approves consent agenda and several policy updates, votes 5-2 on coach-involvement guideline
Summary
The Jennings County School Corporation board approved the consent agenda and a NEOLA policy bundle, and narrowly approved administrative guideline 15-35 (school administrators' involvement in athletic coaching) by a 5-2 vote after a brief discussion and one clarified typo.
The Board Chair opened the meeting and ran through routine business before the board approved the consent agenda unanimously. A staff member asked the board to accept a packet of NEOLA policies and administrative guidelines and the board approved those materials without exception for most items.
When the board considered new administrative guideline 15-35 — addressing school administrators' involvement in athletic coaching — staff noted a typo that was corrected and presented the revised language. After discussion the board approved the guideline 15-35 by a 5-2 vote. The Chair recorded the tally; two members opposed the motion.
"So asking for approval of this group of policies and admin guidelines without exception of 15 35," a staff member said during the motion to approve the bundle. The vote on policy 15-35 was recorded in the meeting as 5 in favor and 2 opposed.
Board members made no substantive amendments at the meeting; administrative staff said the corrected typo (changing "hiring firing" to "hiring") had been fixed in the posted document. The approved NEOLA packet and guideline 15-35 will be incorporated into the district policy manual and posted with the district's policy materials.
