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Due to inclement weather closing school for several days, the Eastern-Greene School Board adjusted their plan during their regular monthly meeting on Monday evening.
Graduation Day is now set for Saturday, June 5 with the ceremony scheduled to start at 11 a.m.
In personnel matters, the board hired Jon Uebelhor as the new high school golf coach.
Uebelhor attended the meeting and told the board he had played golf through high school and is currently a student (junior) at Indiana University. He said he had been interested in serving as a volunteer assistant golf coach, but when he heard about the job opening, he decided to apply.
Following the approval, superintendent Ty Mungle said he has been talking to Hidden Hills Golf Course and hopes that will become the team's home course.
The board also accepted two coaching resignations -- Dan Fidago resigned from his position as girls varsity basketball coach and Jim Rose resigned from his position as girls varsity assistant basketball coach.
In other business, the board waived the first reading of a proposed updated handbook for classified employees and approved a VALIC 401A Classified Retirement Plan Document.
They also waived the first reading of an proposed updated Facility Usage Policy.
Foreign language teacher Bill Valentine attended the meeting and spoke to the board about a proposed trip to Europe during next year's Spring Break.
Valentine said he had taken two groups on trips to Europe in the 1990s and would like to take another in March 2011.
The cost per person would be $3,400, a rate that is lower in March than during the summer months.
Valentine said any student, parent or other adult could go but they have to pay their own way.
The trip would be arranged through "Passports" educational travel company and would include stops in France, Monaco and Italy.
Board president Lane Corbin said he didn't want to set a precedent of the board approving travel out of the country and he expressed concern about liability issues.
Board member Donnie James said he didn't think the trip was any of the board's business since the group would be going on their own time, their parents approved and they would be paying their own way.
The board agreed and decided to remove approval of the trip from their agenda, thus not approving or disapproving but leaving the responsibility up to the teacher and parents of those who wanted to make the trip.
Valentine said the group would be having an informational meeting on Friday.
All board members were present except for Kim Waldridge.
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What was said about football???
Come on now, the seniors have been in school for at least 12 years. Why not let just the seniors go at the normal time and keep the underclassmen for the makeup days? A few extra days of school is not going to do anything to further their education. The students are itching to go, the teachers aren't gonna have important lessons planned for the last few days of school. At my high school, seniors didn't have to make up snow days and didn't take finals the last semester.
Would their diploma be withheld if they didn't show up the last few days?
State law....have to be in session for 180 days. Contact Mitch...He's the one who changed it.
Nothing noted about the RIF letters being send out?