Donation made to Eagle Manufacturing program
Eagle Manufacturing students will have internships through Conexus this summer thanks in part to a community member who donated money to help pay their teacher’s salary this summer.
The Brown County Schools Board of Trustees approved a $4,274.03 donation from Sean Milloy at their June 6 meeting. Milloy serves on the Career Resource Center of Brown County Steering Committee and on the Eagle Manufacturing Advisory Board.
The students will work internships through Conexus and get paid for their work this summer, Superintendent Laura Hammack said.
One of the stipulations with Conexus was that the school district had to pay their educator, Chris Townsend, to work their program. Hammack said that the district was able to pay a portion of his salary with a reimbursement from the state for summer school, but it did not cover the entire cost.
The district was trying to find money to cover the balance when Milloy “very kindly stepped forward and just decided to write the check himself, which is amazing,” Hammack said.
“I called him. He is extraordinarily humble. He doesn’t want anything, but I think that he’s absolutely amazing and what a gift for our program,” she said.
Anonymous donor covers lunch debt at Sprunica
Sprunica Elementary School students will start next school year without any lunch debt.
An anonymous donor has stepped forward to cover the lunch debt at Sprunica. The $847.44 donation was approved at the June 6 Brown County School Board of Trustees meeting.
“We had someone give us a call and ask to pay off all of the lunch debt at Sprunica. They did not want any credit for it,” Superintendent Laura Hammack said.
School board approves handbooks, staff changes
The Brown County Schools Board of Trustees approved the following June 6:
- Handbooks for all schools for next year. elementary school handbook for
- The retirement of Cynthia Belden, Kathy Pitcher, Pamela Stewart, Laverne Mays and Vickey Hendershot at the conclusion of the 2018-2019 school year.
- An out-of-state professional leave request for Emily Lewellen to attend the national competition for National History Day in College Park, Maryland, June 9-13.
- Adding a corporation bus route to the responsibilities of corporation administrative assistant Sandra Pool, total of $43,177 compensation.
- A $10,000 Dollar General Literacy Foundation grant to the Brown County Career Resource Center jail program for 2019-2020.
- Separating BCJHS Spell Bowl coach and language arts academic team coach Sarah Cochran, at the conclusion of the 2018-2019 school year. This was not a termination.
- Separating BCHS Science Honor Society sponsor Wendy Weddle, at the conclusion of the 2018-2019 school year. This was not a termination.
- Separating BCJHS assistant football coach Donald Asher, effective May 20. This was not a termination.
- Separating BCHS head baseball coach Ryan Wilcoxen, effective May 30. This was not a termination.
- Separating BCIS after-school supervisor Darian Butler, effective May 29. This was not a termination.
- Separating BCJHS seventh-grade football coach Shannon Hall, effective May 30. This was not a termination.
- Separating BCHS assistant soccer coach Andrew Barrett, effective June 3. This was not a termination.
- Separating Brown County Schools health assistant substitute Tammy Southerland, effective June 3. This was not a termination.
- Appointing BCJHS Spell Bowl coach Jane Phillips, split position, $311 stipend for next school year. She is a replacement for Sarah Cochran.
- Appointing BCJHS assistant cross-country coach Holly Gordon, $1,278 stipend for next school year. She is a replacement for Jim McFall.
- Appointing BCIS sixth-grade volleyball coach Rebekah Bryan, $993 stipend, effective 2019-2020 school year. She is a replacement for Justin Mollo.
- Appointing BCIS fifth-grade volleyball coach Alysha Oxendine, $1,023 stipend for next school year. She is a replacement for Kady Lane.
- Appointing BCJHS eighth-grade volleyball coach Donald Vaught, $1,598 stipend for next school year. He is a replacement for Emma Totten.
- Appointing BCHS boys assistant varsity basketball coach Garrett Krieg, $3,324 stipend for next school year. He is a replacement for Brandon Carlson.
- Appointing BCHS assistant varsity volleyball coach Daisha Holt, $2,302 stipend for next school year. She is a replacement for Elaine Tilotson.
- The Sprunica Elementary School extra duty schedule for the 2019-2020 school year: Math Bowl coach Rhonda VanWinkle; Science Bowl coach Amy Gordon; Spell Bowl coach Dana Figg; team leader teachers Erika East and Alyse Johnson; high ability team leader Johanna Weinzaphel; technology coaches and team leaders Lindsay Wheeler and Alane Lovell; special education team leader Megan Kakavecos.
- Transferring SES after-school care assistant Taylor Seacat to BCIS after-school care supervisor, $14 per hour, three hours per day, 180 days per year, as a replacement for Darian Butler.
- Transferring BCJHS eighth-grade volleyball coach Emma Totten to seventh-grade volleyball coach, effective July 1.
