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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, Januar y 22, 2020 A-3 LOCAL Call: 812-354-8500 Email: news@pressdispatch.net or bring in a hard copy: 820 E. Poplar Street, Petersburg NEWS BRIEFS Polar Plunge set for Feb. 29 The 2020 Polar Plunge in Petersburg is scheduled for noon on Saturday, February 29 at Prides Creek Park Beach. Participants can register online at polarplungeIN. org or you can show up between 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. to register. Entry fee is $75 in donations to par- ticipate. Proceeds from the Plunge are used to fund Special Olympics Indiana. Since 1969, Special Olympics Indiana has grown to more than 18,000 athletes. Time to register for Birthday Club If you haven't submitted your birthday within the last 6 months, please register again at www.pressdis- patch.net/birthday. Entrants have a chance to win monthly prizes from local businesses and a three- month subscription to The Press-Dispatch. Upcoming event? We want to know! Do you have an upcoming event? 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Grace Brandle, grade 11, has now been added to the distinguished honor roll. Karan Thacker, AFSP Owner 704 E. Haub Street Haubstadt, IN 47639 THACKER TAX SERVICE 512 S. 8th Avenue Haubstadt, IN 47639 812-615-0071 (office) 812-789-3852 (cell) kthacker01@gmail.com position, paid based on the teacher's salary scale, with an extended 240 -day con- tract to begin July 20, 2020, when the Director of Tech- nology's contract ends. Also, there will be a new position created. One of the corporation's Computer Technology Assistant posi- tions will be phased out, to be replaced with a full-time Network Technician. This position will assist the Network Administrator (current Building Technol- ogy Coordinator), and han- dle more complicated hard- ware, software and network- ing issues. This position re- quires extensive knowledge acquired through an associ- ate's degree or documented, long-term, comparable ex- perience. This position will have a contract length of 220 days, be paid based on the current Assistant to the Di- rector of Technology wage scale, and begin as soon as approval by the school board is complete. OTHER BUSINESS The school board also: • Approved an increase in the corporation's dai- ly rate of pay for substitute teachers to $70 per day, if they have requirements to acquire a substitute license ($10 raise), $ 80 per day if they hold a bachelor's de- gree or higher ($10 raise) and $ 90 per day if they're a retired teacher from the cor- poration ($15 raise). • Approved the posting of the following positions: Precision Machine (PC stand-alone program), Fire Science, Diesel Technology, Construction Trades (two areas: HVAC and electri- cal), and Mechanical Draft- ing and Design. Superinten- dent Suzanne Blake made the recommendation to post these positions after meet- ing with Deffendoll, PCHS Principal Brian Holland and Director of the Patoka Valley CTE Cooperative to discuss the expansion of the Career and Technical programs at PCHS. • Approved Chelsea Yon to continue as the Treasur- er for the corporation. Blake said Yon has attended pro- fessional development op- portunities, communicates with other school finance of- ficials and adheres to State Board of Accounts guide- lines for school finance. Yon was also approved as the Executive Secretary for the 2020 calendar year. • Approved the reap- pointment of Lorice Cham- berlain as the Deputy Trea- sure for the corporation. Blake said Chamberlain is knowledgeable of the duties of the position and is will- ing to attend professional development opportunities and communicate with oth- er school finance officials while ensuring compliance with accounting and school budgeting guidelines. • Approved the follow- ing dates in 2020 for future meetings: Feb. 11, March 10, April 14, May 12, June 9, Aug. 11, Sept. 8, Oct. 13, Nov. 10 and Dec. 8. • Approved the appoint- ment of Val Fleig as the cor- poration's attorney for 2020. The terms of the agreement are a $ 600 monthly retain- er that is due at the first of each month. The retain- er fee includes general ad- vice and research, and one board meeting per month of not more than two hours if requested. All other mat- ters will be billed at the rate of $100 per hour and include litigation, negotiation, bond issuance and any other mat- ter not covered by the retain- er. Fleig has served as the corporation's attorney since 2013. • Approved The Press- Dispatch as the primary source for the publication of notices for the corpora- tion in 2020. • Approved annual com- pensation for board mem- bers at $2,000 and mileage reimbursement at the IRS designated rate (57.5 cpm). • Approved the PES Ro- botics teams request for a field trip to the Indianapolis Children's Museum on Fri- day, March 6. A fter the field trip, students will eat dinner and then go to Lucas Oil Sta- dium, where they check in, have their robots inspect- ed and setup practice fields and pit areas for the Indiana State VEX Robotics Compe- tition the following day. • Approved a bid from RG Mechanical in the amount of $ 399,925 for the replacement of three air handler units at PCHS dur- ing the summer of 2020. It was the lowest bid, with the others coming at: $475,000 from Huntingburg Machine Works, $427,000 from Meh- ringer Plumbing and Heat- ing and $548,000 from Mid- west Roofing and Sheet Met- al. • Approved Christo- pher Mohammed as the Business/Computer Sci- ence teacher for the ninth through twelfth grades at PCHS for the remainder of the 2019 -2020 school year; Phil Clauss as the ECA po- sition of PCHS High Abili- ty Building Coordinator for the second semester of the 2019 -2020 school year; Car- rie Smith and Sabrina Ma- son as teaching assistants at PES; Josh Scott as a volun- teer assistant coach for PES boys' basketball team; Eliz- abeth Hutchinson as an in- structional assistant at PC- MS beginning Jan. 15; and Kevin Roy as a substitute bus mechanic for the PCSC with the same pay rate as a substitute bus driver. • Approved the follow- ing fundraisers: PES Ro- botics to sell team brace- lets for $1; Students Against Destructive Decisions Club (SADD) to sell Yankee Can- dles to pay for prizes/incen- tives, drug free posters/ma- terials, mental health bro- chures/posters and teacher appreciation items; PCHS Cheer to host a mini-cheer clinic on Jan. 17 on PCHS; Computer Integrated Man- ufacturing (CIM) students to design and produce gift items for equipment main- tenance and project mate- rials; National Honor So- ciety to sell Little Caesar's pizza kits for club and grad- uation supplies, and service projects; Spectrum Alliance Club to sell Yankee Candles to pay for T-shirts, prizes/in- centives, kindness, anti-bul- lying materials and teach- er appreciation items; Pike Central FFA to sell healthy Country Meats Smoked Snack Sticks for $1 each to pay for official FFA jackets and chapter supplies; the Precision Machining class to participate in the annu- al German-American bank "clean sweep," with money earned used for entry fees to competitions and club T-shirts; the Precision Ma- chining Program's Manu- facturing Clubs to collect aluminum cans and other scrap metals to sell small scale, custom-engraved aluminum key chains to in- dividual groups for between $2 and $ 3 each, depending on the quality and complex- ity. The money earned will be used to purchase club T-shirts, pay entry fees in- to SkillsUSA and other ma- chining competitions and charitable donations; the Spanish Club to sell Pulsera bracelets made by artists in Central America for $5, with the money earned going to the Pulsera Project; the Key Club to sell Valentine's Day Candy Grams, with money earned to help pay for ser- vice projects; and the high school band to have a mat- tress sale, with proceeds go- ing to the marching band, winter percussion and win- ter guard. Continued from page 1 CHANGES e Pike County Clerk's Office will be holding a VOTING CENTER TRANSITION PUBLIC MEETING on ursday, January 30, 2020 at 6 p.m. in the auditorium of the Pike County Courthouse. All Pike County residents are welcome and encouraged to attend to discuss Pike County transitioning to a vote center county. is will be an informative meeting that will explain the process of changing to a vote center county versus the traditional pre- cinct model that is currently being used. ere will be surveys to complete at the meeting and all public comments, ideas, questions and thoughts are welcome. Surveys may also be picked up in the Pike County Clerk's Office. White River reaches 24.7 feet Flooding of more than eight feet above flood stage on the White River left thousands of acres of farm ground underwater. Below, the water was over the top of picnic tables in the shelter houses at Moose Field.