BROWNSTOWN — The board of trustees of the Brownstown Central Community School Corp. reorganized during a meeting Tuesday night at the administration office.
After the two newly appointed trustees — Greg Hutcheson and Tory Rudolph — were sworn in by Angie Wheeles, the corporation’s treasurer, trustees voted to reelected trustee Brian Wheeles as president.
Other trustees elected officers by the board were Paul Borden, vice president; Jerry Hounshel, secretary; and Steve Ritter, assistant secretary.
Trustee Clayton Beard was elected to serve as the board’s liaison with the Indiana School Board Association; Hutcheson was appointed to serve as the board’s representative on the corporation’s vocational ag committee; and Rudolph was appointed to represent the board on the corporation athletic council.
Trustees also agreed to retain the law firm Church, Church, Hittle and Antrim as the board’s legal representation, appointed Wheeles as corporation treasurer and Assistant Superintendent Jade Peters as assistant treasurer.
In an unrelated matter, the board approved a $1,971.61 emergency allocation to Trane for a chiller repair at the high school. The payment leaves an emergency allocation fund balance of $64m493.29, Peters reported.
He also gave a brief update on construction projects at all three schools.
Peters said the carpet has been installed, the restrooms have been tiled and work on the science lab is going well the middle school.
At the elementary school, ceiling tiles have been installed in the first grade and kindergarten wings and LED lights have been undated as well. The rest of the school is on schedule to be ready for the first day of school on Aug. 6.
The roadway project at the school is going fairly well, and the concrete for the new gymnasium at the elementary school has been poured, Peters said.
The project involving the installation of artificial turf on the baseball field and a tall fence in right field to compensate for its short distance and the lack of land there should beginning sometime in August.
“I am still waiting on some final pricing and some final drawings on that,” Peters said. “The last I talked to Sprinturf last week, they still had a goal of the first week of August. I personally think that’s going to be a tough one for them to do. We’re only two weeks away.”
Trustees also approved the resignations/terminations of Kourtnee Crum, a special education teacher at the middle school; Jennifer Foist, an aide at the elementary school, Riley Nuss, eighth grade girls’ volleyball coach; and Brenda Tormoehlen, a special education aide at the elementary school.
The board approved recommendations to hire Hope Barger and Amber Thompson as special education aides at the elementary school; Dan Farris as the route 1 bus driver; Stephanie Hackman, as a high school English teacher; Rhonda Lawalin, as a special education teacher at the middle school; Jesse Mails as a 28-hour aide at the elementary school; Susan Robinson as a special education aide at the high school; and Leigh Wessel as a secretary at the elementary school.
The transfers of Calli Ferguson from library aide to extracurricular activity fund treasurer/library aide at the high school; Elizabeth James from 28-hour aide to special education aide at the middle school; Cassidy Wurtzburger from junior varsity to freshman volleyball coach at the high school; and Abbigail Young from freshman to junior volleyball coach, also were approved.
Trustees also voted to reappoint Kim Lockman as their representative to the board of the Brownstown Public Library.