Carrollton School Board approves tentative budget
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By Carmen Ensinger
Other than personnel issues, which were taken care of in closed session, the Carrollton School Board had very little to take care of in open session at their Aug. 18 school board meeting.
“We had three things under new business to take care of,” Carrollton Superintendent Jason Bauer said. “We approved the Fiscal Year 2026 tentative budget and put it on display, which is a routine thing that we do every year. Then we approved a risk management plan, which is an annual task that we have to do for our auditing firm and the third thing was to sign an intergovernmental agreement with Calhoun.”
The intergovernmental agreement with Calhoun was to share the costs of a bus that goes to Garrison School in Jacksonville. Calhoun has a student that needs to go to Garrison and rather than take a bus all the way to Jacksonville for the one student, they would bring the student to Carrollton and the student would pick the bus up in Carrollton and go to Garrison and Calhoun would pay a fee to Carrollton for the student to ride the bus.
Carrollton has several new teachers this year and will be welcoming those teachers to the district before the September board meeting on Sept. 22 with a Teacher Reception at 6 p.m. in the Grade School Commons with light refreshments. This will be followed by the budget hearing at 6:45 p.m. and the regular school board meeting at 7 p.m.
There were two visitors who requested to speak at the meeting. Susuan Postlewait addressed the board about the Jerseyville high school band recording the Carrollton fight song and volleyball coach Cretia Robeen addressed the board about the grading scale.
“Some schools have the 10-point scale for grading where if you get a 90 on a test you have an A, but ours is a little bit more rigorous,” Bauer said. “She was talking about how in some schools that 90 would be an A but here it is a B. I think here you have to have at least a 92 to get an A.”
Robeen also wanted the percentages put on the transcripts.
“So, like besides just a letter grade, she wanted us to put the percentage on there as well,” Bauer said.
No action was taken on a request to purchase a dump trailer by Maintenance Supervisor Steve Caselton.
“We tabled that request because Steve wasn’t able to find one yet,” Bauer said. “He is looking for an open trailer to haul things like limbs. Right now, he is having to either borrow one or rent one.”
Ironically, the district had the old enclosed Hawk trailer that they just recently sold.
“We sold it because it had sat for more than a year without ever being used,” Bauer said. “Plus, it was enclosed and we really need an open trailer for what we need one for. It is nothing we have to have right now so we will keep looking.”
Following the closed session, the district employed the following individuals:
■ Hired as substitutes for the district were: Sally Arnett, Pam Hillis, Danielle Pace, Fredericka Hatfill, Kelli Rahe, Whitney Wrisner, Cynthia Russell, Tamie Gaffner, Olivia Henson and Andrea Kuykendall.
■ Rebecca Henson went from being a substitute to a teacher’s assistant.
■ Debbie Campbell went from being a substitute to being a full-time nurse.
■ Hannah Henson went from being a TA to substitute teacher.
