About 50 people attended the Greene County School Board meeting last night.

During the open forum, Heather Hinote spoke to the Board about the firing of her husband, Jeramie Hinote as head boys basketball coach. She felt it was a hurtful attack and wanted to know why the Board didn’t want him as the coach anymore. As per the Board’s policy, they couldn’t address the issue because it wasn’t an agenda item. However, the Board did say there was a grievance procedure that employees and students must follow before it can be presented to the Board.

Celli Whipple spoke to the Board about keeping lines of communication open and wanted to know about getting coaching positions filled. She also suggested sending coaches to seminars and clinics like the district does for teachers every year. Again, the Board didn’t directly address the issue since it wasn’t on the agenda.

The Board discussed the bus barn lease agreement with the Greene County Fair Board. With the district’s current lease agreement to end in June, the Board wanted to go forward with a short-term lease agreement and inquire the possibility of purchasing the former National Guard Armory building from the County.

The Board then set April 13th at 5:15pm for a special meeting to conduct three public hearings. One will be on the 2016-17 school calendar, another will be on the 2016-17 budget and an amendment to the 2015-16 budget.

The Board approved revising the graduation requirements to allow students to take aquaculture to receive a science credit, a shared agreement with Southeast Webster Grand to share the curriculum director for one day per week, a shared agreement with Ogden to share the media specialist for one day per month, refinance the 2007 sales tax revenue bonds from four percent to 1.75 percent interest rate, reappointed Superintendent Tim Christensen to the Bell Tower Community Foundation Board, the spring officials, a new high school club called Live Action Role Playing, the Kebecca Education Services contract and purchasing 250 Google Chromebooks at a cost of $65,937.50.

The Board also approved to terminate two positions with middle school physical education teacher Ryan Eberly and high school food and sciences teacher Lisa Hansen, due to budgetary reasons.

The Board additionally approved the Dixon Scholarship parameters to allocate 15 scholarships per year at $2,000 per scholarship for the next 20 years, a list of additional fundraisers as presented, purchasing a new van at $27,616.39 and replacing carpet in three elementary classrooms for over $12,000 from the physical plant and equipment levy fund.

The meeting ended in a closed session to evaluate the superintendent.