Meal prices given at South Ripley mtg.
Wanda English Burnett - Editor

At the regular meeting of the South Ripley Community School Corporation Board of School Trustees held July 18, cafeteria meal prices were approved. For the 2005-2006 school year, student breakfast price at both the elementary and high schools will be $1.00. Lunch at the elementary school for students will be $1.50 and $1.75 at the high school. Adult lunches at both schools will be $2.25.

Superintendent Ted Ahaus sought approval to establish a Food Service Clerical position for the 2005-2006 school year. He noted this is a "created job classification but not an additional position in the cafeteria." Current staff will be responsible for this position with the pay rate being $11.20 for entry level and $12.50 for experience level. The position will be posted in July and filled in August. The motion carried unanimously.

Other personnel items included the transfer of Natalie Gilpin from high school aide to bookstore clerk, effective July 19. Thom Conover was approved as temporary summer employee for elementary computer maintenance. He will be paid with Universal Services Fund monies.

Sam Durham was approved as varsity boys cross country coach and Tom Gray as varsity girls soccer coach for the 2005-2006 school year.

Rae Jean Auterson was retained as choral instructor/assistant music director for the 2005-2006 school year. The resignation of Kindra Moorman as elementary aide was accepted and was effective July 18.

In other business:

· Superintendent Ahaus recommended the approval of a resolution to give authorization to the Superintendent of Schools to attend budget hearings and make the appropriate changes to lines one and two of the submitted 2006 state budget. This met with unanimous approval.

· Business Manager Lana Miller told board members that a tax draw was received on June 30, for $889,174.

· The superintendent informed board members that he was reviewing options for funding pension obligation, shared book store hours and a handout that he had received at a seminar regarding property taxes, and told members that copies of the Indiana Farm Bureau Scholastic Reports were available for review.

Assistant Superintendent Dennis Stockdale noted that the Title 1 grant was approved. He invited board members to visit the courtyard at the high school and see the progress made by Kelly Bolt in landscaping for her senior project.

All school board members were present: Chris Bradford, Robert Garcia, Keith Mathews, Randy McIntosh, Jim Miller, Ralph Miller, and Jim Samples.